[Sowing and Reaping by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper]@TWC D-Link bookSowing and Reaping CHAPTER VI 4/8
I really think that you will go crazy on the subject of temperance.
I think you must have written these lines that I have picked up somewhere; let me see what they are,---- "Tell me not that I hate the bowl, Hate is a feeble word." "No Jeanette, I did not write them, but I have felt all the writer has so nervously expressed.
In my own sorrow-darkened home, and over my poor father's grave, I learned to hate liquor in any form with all the intensity of my nature." "Well, it was a good thing you were not at Mrs.Glossop's last night, for some of our heads were rather dizzy, and I know that Mr.Romaine was out of gear.
Now Belle! don't look so shocked and pained; I am sorry I told you." "Yes, I am very sorry.
I had great hopes that Mr.Romaine had entirely given up drinking, and I was greatly pained when I saw him take a glass of wine at your solicitation.
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