In other respects we are apt to fail.
We do not fail, however, in organisation only with regard to these charitable institutions.

We are very hard and unsympathetic in them.

A distinguished woman has been here lately--a Miss Cobbe (a fellow-worker with Miss Carpenter)--who, having overworked herself, was forced by her physician to come here for three months and rest, under dire penalties.
She went to Isa Blagden's, and returned to England and her work just now.

She is very acute, and so perfectly without Continental prejudices, that she didn't pretend to much interest even in our Italian movement, having her heart in England and with the poor.

But she was much struck, not merely with the order of foreign institutions, but with their superior tenderness and sympathy.