At an earlier period-the date is not exactly fixable, but the stationeryused and the handwriting suggest the early eighties- Their brains had evidently been dashedout with a club, and every mark about them seemed to have been made witha blunt instrument. On the way I pointed out a little corner of land which earlier he hadgiven me to straighten our division line. We have with us Katie Leary (in our domestic service 23 years) & Miss Margaret Sherry (trained nurse).
Grant made nofurther inquiry, and probably never again mentioned the subject to anyone. It must have been a deadly, sickening, numbing pain,for I have seen it crumple him, and his face become I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. ere, where the pressure would have been far less terrific than it was with us in Fifth Avenue.
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