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better I fulfil them; and, with the exception of these, there is nothing in my life that I cannot have done for me by some one better able to do it than I am. And even if I had children I should not be much more occupied, for the things they ought to learn from their mothers are best taught by example. For all practical purposes, parents, as a rule, are bad masters for any but very young children. They err on the side of over severity or the reverse. So you see I have no obligations of consequence, and there is, therefore, nothing in my life to inspire a sense of responsibility. And all this seems to me a grievous waste of Me. I remember Lord

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s are isolated; it would make little d

be merely a poem?" I said, maliciously.

others in a small way with some work of importance. I never believe I was born just to live and die. But I have a queer feeling about

uction of an offspring-a song, a picture, a poem, or book on some most serious subject, and all worthy of note. But she was inconstant, and these children of her

ew interest was a step by which she mounted upwards, learning to sympathise practically