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[300] that she had intended coming a year earlier, and had sent forward at that time her photograph and her biography. The doctor once invited me to go with him to the Boston Theatre, which was then occupied by a French troupe. This was at some period of our civil war. The most important of the plays given was ‘La Joie fait Peur.’ As it proceeded, Dr. Hedge said to me, ‘What a wonderful people these French are! They have put passion enough into this performance to carry our war through to a successful termination.’

Dr. Hedge had known Margaret Fuller well in her youth and his own. His judgment of her was perhaps more generous than hers of him, as indicated in her criticism just quoted of his discourse, namely, that it occupied ‘high ground for middle ground.’ In truth, the two were very unlike. Margaret's nature impelled her to rush into ‘the imminent deadly breach,’ while an element of caution and world-wisdom made the doctor averse to all unnecessary antagonism and conflict. She probably considered him timid where he felt her to be rash. In after years he often spoke of her to me, always with great appreciation. I remarked once to him that she had entertained a very good opinion of herself. He replied, ‘Yes, and she was entitled to it.’ He recalled some passages of her life in Cambridge. She once

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