10/24 Don't you feel that ?" "I do not wish you to feel it, nor would you do so long if you had other people around you. I am an old man, and cannot look for new pleasures in society. It has been the fault of my life to be too much alone. I do not want to see my children follow me in that." "It is so very short a time as yet," said she, thinking of her mother's death. |