8/54 And as we were both born a little deficient in worldly caution and worldly policy, let us receive from others those, lessons,--_do as well as we can_, and keep our _heart_ unworldly if our manners take on something of those ways. I have scarcely got over the _tire_ of the congress [Footnote: The annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Women, of which Miss Mitchell was president. It was held at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1875.] yet, although it is a week since I returned. I feel as if a great burden was lifted from my soul. |