The purchase of the field
and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. And when
Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet
into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his
people." There is no distress here: he gathers up his feet and
departs. Perhaps our wild longings are unnatural, and yet it seems but
nature NOT to be content with what contented the patriarch. Anyhow,
wherever and whatever my husband and Sophy are I shall be. This at
least is beyond dispute.
October 12th.--I do not wish to forget past joys, but I must simply
remember them and not try to paint them. I must cut short any yearning
for them.
October 20th.--We do not say the same things to ourselves with
sufficient frequency. In these days of book-reading fifty fine thoughts
come into our heads in a day, and the next morning are forgotten. Not
one of them becomes a religion. In the Bible how few the thoughts are,
and how incessantly they are repeated! If my life could be controlled
by two or three divine ideas, I would burn my library.
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