What does it matter?
I have pacified them, for the time, with some small installments of money, and a large expenditure of smiles.
"I wish you could see my darling little Minna; she is the loveliest and sweetest child in the world--my pride at all times, and my salvation in my desperate moods.

There are moments when I feel inclined to set fire to the hateful University, and destroy all the moldy old creatures who inhabit it.

I take Minna out and buy her a little present, and see her eyes sparkle and her color rise, and feel her innocent kisses, and become, for awhile, quite a good woman again.

Yesterday, her father--no, I shall work myself up into a fury if I tell you about it.

Let me only say that Minna saved me as usual.