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alas!
the emancipation of Crete was not yet to be.
We passed the summer of 1868 at Stevens Cottage, which was very near the town of Newport.
I do not exactly remember how it came about that my dear friend and pastor, Rev. Charles Brooks, invited me to read some of my essays at his church on Sunday afternoons.
I had great pleasure in doing this.
The church was well filled, and the audience excellent in character, and a lady among these one day kissed me after my lecture, saying, ‘This is the way I want to hear women speak.’
Another lady, it is true, was offended at some saying of mine.
I think that it was to this effect.
Speaking of the idle lives of some rich women, I said, ‘If God works, Madam, you can afford to work also.’
At this the person in question rose and went away, saying, ‘I won't listen to such stuff as this.’
I was not at all aware of the occurrence at the time, nor did I hear of it until the same lady having sent me cards for a reception at her house, I attended it, thereby provoking some comment.
I was glad afterwards that I had done so, as the lady in question paid me every friendly attention, and made me quite sure that she had only yielded to a momentary ebullition of temper, to which, indeed, she was too prone.
I read the ‘Phaedo’ of Plato in the original
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