Your affectionate godfather,
G. L.
My Dear Godfather,--I have sent back the Orelli. How I should love to
come and to wander about the meadows with you by the river or sit in the
boat with you under the willows. But I cannot, for I have promised to
speak at a Woman's Temperance Meeting next week, and in the week
following I am going to read a paper called "An Educational Experiment,"
before our Ethical Society. This, I think, will be interesting. I have
placed my pupils in difficult historical positions, and have made them
tell me what they would have done, giving the reasons. I am thus
enabled to detect any weakness and to strengthen character on that side.
Most of the girls are embarrassed by the conflict of motives, and I have
to impress upon them the necessity in life of disregarding those which
are of less importance and of prompt action on the stronger. I have
classified my results in tables, so that it may be seen at a glance what
impulses are most generally operative.
But to go back to your letter. I will not have you shuffle.
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