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interested call to leave cards immediately the engagement is made & thus communicate the intelligence. – Very social are the German ladies with each other & bean cutting parties are very frequent excuses for it in proper season. A lady thus assembles around her a number of female friends for the express purpose of cutting into small pieces a quantity of beans for winter preservation, but tea & gossip serve to contribute more largely to the temptation for such a rendezvous.

With great regret did we leave our friends at 10’oclock.

WED. AUG. 9 Our kind friends came over early to amuse us in the town. They drove us over to lunch & I visited at Offenbach a fancy leather manufactory. The lions of Franfort I shall not speak of here for in 2 former

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