May it taste how sweet Thou art....

May the sweet and burning power of Thy love, I beseech Thee, absorb my soul." All girls have in them the germ of passion, and the line of its development depends on the character brought into the world, and the surrounding influences of education.

I had but two ideals in my childhood and youth, round whom twined these budding tendrils of passion; they were my mother and the Christ.

I know this may seem strange, but I am trying to state things as they were in this life-story, and not give mere conventionalisms, and so it was.

I had men friends, but no lovers--at least, to my knowledge, for I have since heard that my mother received two or three offers of marriage for me, but declined them on account of my youth and my childishness--friends with whom I liked to talk, because they knew more than I did; but they had no place in my day-dreams.