Both are dead, long ago.
[Sidenote: (1845.)] [_Dictated March 16, 1906._] We will return to those schoolchildren of sixty years ago.

I recall Mary Miller.

She was not my first sweetheart, but I think she was the first one that furnished me a broken heart.

I fell in love with her when she was eighteen and I was nine, but she scorned me, and I recognized that this was a cold world.

I had not noticed that temperature before.