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Title: Diary of a refugee
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Fearn, Frances Hewitt
Subjects: Women Women Plantation life Refugees Refugees
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ind a school forClarice before he leaves to return to Mexico,where he has large interests. We are indulging in the great pleasure 94 DIARY OF A REFUGEE that all women feel, when they can shop inParis. The things we bought in Havana arenot suitable for the winter climate here, andthey do not seem to us quite so wonderfullybeautiful as they did when we bought them.I think we are becoming more fastidious anddifficult to please than we were on reachingHavana. PARIS,OCTOBER. Beautiful, fascinating Paris! But with all itsbrightness and the splendor that exists underthe third Empire, it does not appeal to me;my heart goes back to England. However,I know that I must stay here for the winteron account of Clarice. We are looking foran apartment; while we have seen many, noneof them are suitable, so few are even clean,and as yet we have not seen one with a bath-room. A curious thing happened last night whilewe were at the theater, just before the closeof the piece. During the last act we noticed
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E H PiWQ DIARY OF A REFUGEE 95 a man who had been for some time lookingsteadily at our box through his opera-glass,but as he stood in a passage where there wasvery little light, this prevented us from see-ing his face. On coming out we thought wesaw in the crowd our friend the French offi-cer of Matamoras. It seemed so unlikelythat we dismissed the idea as being improb-able. In the course of a few days we foundout that we were not mistaken, as he was theman who had been looking so long at Belle,and followed us to our hotel. The next dayhe came to the hotel and bribed Jack (myhusbands valet) to tell him our plans; onhearing that we were looking for an apart-ment, he gave Jack the address of one, andtold him to be sure and have us go to lookat it. When he went home to his mother, heinformed her that an American family werecoming to look at the apartment that shewanted to let, and that she must allow themto have it on their own terms as it meanteverything to him and his fut

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