Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... at nineteen. When I go home I must take fate in hand.... "My own timidity is so great that I think I shrink from what I believe my true occupation. "To be great, to be powerful, to have a nation hanging on one's will--dreams dim and momentary of such a destiny come to me.... "Then to be good--that one's single will might be the good angel of millions, that is the supreme dream of my intellect...." At last it was all settled: on her thirtieth birthday she writes: --"If I know my own heart (as good people say in class meetings) I was never braver for the future nor half so well prepared in resolution and in intellect to do some service to my fellow-women. "I can do so much more when I go home. I shall have a hold on life, and a fitness for it so much more assured. Perhaps--who knows?--there may be noble, wide-reaching work for me in the steady, mature years that stretch before me, the years of intelligent labor for which we are so long in getting ready--some of us, at least." But all this while she was not neglecting Paris and its sights: --"I have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. I thank Heaven that I know at least ray ignorance, and maintain an intent and teachable attitude." "Jan. 10. 1869.--We are much diverted by the velocipedes so common in the Paris streets. A youth followed our omnibus a long distance, looking like a crab running on its hind legs, an object outrageous to the eyes, but getting over the ground in a surprising r manner, and managing his curious machine with great skill and as much grace as could be in what is absolutely graceless in itself." Some of the other things to be seen in the Paris streets, however, she did not find so diverting, and after the...