12/14 I told him what he ought to do, and offered to open my purse for the purpose; but he would not, or _did_ not; indeed, he _never_ took my advice; he followed his own, and a foul and dismal shoal he has drifted on. It is not for his sake--why should I ?-that I have longed and laboured to remove the disgraceful slur under which his ill-fortune has thrown us. He troubles himself little about it, I believe--he's meek, meeker than I.He cares less about his children than I about you, Maud; he is selfishly sunk in futurity--a feeble visionary. I believe it to be a duty to take care of others beside myself. |