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Friday, May 7th.. Clear and sultry. Sarah Wilde spent the greater
part of the afternoon here, and her incessant chattering
afforded Carrie and I considerable amusement.
As Carrie says, we love to hear her talk just to see
what a goose she will make of herself.
But [Sarah] has some good qualities notwithstanding;
she is good-hearted, generous and affectionate, yet a child
she will always be, for what is necessary to make a [lady, scratched out]
woman or a lady she has no idea. Her life is all
outside; of the inward she has but a dim perception
looking merely at externals her childish fancy is gratified
or displeased accordingly, and her smiles and tears follow
each other in as quick succession as those of any baby
five or six years old. She has just beauty enough to make
her vain, and by hearing the conversation of other young
ladies she has gathered some notions of the beaux and
getting married, on which engrossing topics she discourses
with the most innocent, and original fluency. To the no
small edification of her amazed and diverted hearers.
But in fact in this wordly wise age, when a maiden
of ten knows more than the grandmother did at twenty
it is refreshing to meeting occaisionally with such an artless specimen
of young ladyhood and were not her simplicity so apt to
degenerate into nonsense, she would really be an interesting
girl.

[written sideways along margin]
Attending prayer meeting with Father of the Wilde's in the evening

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