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attach enormous importance to him. They have
also introduced me to an old bachelor
Gardiner with filthy nails & fearfully John
Bully face & figure & another Father
Savage a jolly old Irish priest; whose
kindly eyes entirely subdue the effect of his
name. It seems they were both rather ardent
in their expressions of me; & yesterday morn
-ing old G told a friend that I had sa
-luted him in passing with a smile
that was worth a hundred guineas
to his heart." Dr Bethune & family arrived
at the pension next us last evening; his
poor wife, can she enjoy this dragging
around the world? Hazeltine looks
horribly --- I imagine he drinks gambles
& does every bad thing imaginable - he has
too [sic] me so utterly worthless an expression, &
to see B[-----] Biggs in his embrace most
of the evening, entirely disgusted me with her,
I think she is about as fast a character as
I have ever met - Alice has lots of beaux
they tell me; but has some desease [sic] of the
womb & no wish to marry at present.
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860