She Was A Woman Who,

She Feels In Italics And Thinks In Capitals.

Keep Making The Movements Of Life.

She Carried Within Herself A Great Fund Of Life, And Her Deepest Enjoyment Was To Feel The Continuity Between The Movement Of Her Own Heart And The Agitations Of The World. For This Reason, She Was Fond Of Seeing Great Crowds, And Large Stretches Of Country, Of Reading About Revolutions And Wars, Of Looking At Historical Pictures--a Class Of Efforts To Which She Had Often Gone So Far As To Forgive Much Bad Painting For The Sake Of The Subject.

We Are Divided Of Course Between Liking To Feel The Past Strange And Liking To Feel It Familiar.

Though It Might Have Its Momentary Alarms, Paternity Is Not An Exciting Vocation.