Is not this childish?
Pardon me, for I cannot help it.

However, though I am not strong enough to bear up cheerfully, I can still bear up; and I will continue to stay (D.V.) some months longer, till I have acquired German; and then I hope to see all your faces again.

Would that the vacation were well over! it will pass so slowly.

Do have the Christian charity to write me a long, long letter; fill it with the minutest details; nothing will be uninteresting.

Do not think it is because people are unkind to me that I wish to leave Belgium; nothing of the sort.