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- sure to belong to women of the lowest clas -actee [?]. some of them played with great success & won piles of gold the short time we stood by. To me it was most painful to see even those already degraded creatures indulge in an occupation so vile & unwomanly. All the while at Baden I had Mrs Gray's beautiful story of the Gambler's life By Mead [?] - but I failed to recognize in any of my own that I met the least resemblance to the English Sisters. May & Maud Sutherland - I amid the many who gathered around the roulette tables I looked in vain for the Authors frail but fascinating hero - Harry Percy - There was one tall Englishman with fair wavy hair & & blue eyes, also somewhat resembled him. I was surprised by a call (one indeed two) from the Hawkshurst Townsends - the Browns also favor'd us - & Gould Hoyt & Mr Vail we met one evening at the Kursaal.
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860