But
for all that I would train a child in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord, according to the simplest and best creed I could disentangle from
those barbarisms, and I would in every way try to keep up in young
persons that standard of reverence for all sacred subjects which may,
without any violent transition, grow and ripen into the devotion of later
years. Believe me,
Very sincerely yours,
I have thought a good deal about this letter and the writer of it lately.
She seemed at first removed to a distance from all of us, but here I find
myself in somewhat near relations with her. What has surprised me more
than that, however, is to find that she is becoming so much acquainted
with the Register of Deeds. Of all persons in the world, I should least
have thought of him as like to be interested in her, and still less, if
possible, of her fancying him. I can only say they have been in pretty
close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of
so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a
little heightened after one or more of these interviews. No! that would
be too absurd! But I begin to think nothing is absurd in the matter of
the relations of the two sexes; and if this high-bred woman fancies the
attentions of a piece of human machinery like this elderly individual, it
is none of my business.
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