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ladies of the Council.
Speeches: Rev. Mr. De Wars, Anglican minister, spoke of our taking A. A.W. to England.
I wondered if this was my handwriting on the wall.”
“October 10. Wheaton Seminary Club, Vendome.
Reminiscences of Longfellow and Emerson.... As I was leaving one lady said to me, ‘Mrs. Howe, you have shocked me very much, and I think that when you go to the other world, you will be sorry that you did not stay as you were,’ i.e., Orthodox instead of Unitarian.
Miss Emerson apologized to me for this rather uncivil greeting.
I feel sure that the lady misunderstood something in my lecture.
What, I could not tell.”
“November 1. The Communion service was very delightful.
I prayed quite earnestly this morning that the dimness of sight, which has lately troubled me, might disappear.
My eyes are really better to-day.
I seemed at one moment during the service to see myself as a little child in the Heavenly Father's Nursery, having played my naughty pranks (alas!) and left my tasks unperformed, but coming, as bedtime draws near, to kiss and be forgiven.”
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