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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER II
18/29

He talked to-day, on my asking him some questions, and talked better than I expected.

He is plainly full of intelligence, full of enthusiasm for his religion, and, I suspect, full of bigotry.

I do not believe he will die a Catholic priest.

A young man of his temperament must find it hard to live without family ties, and I shall expect to hear, if I ever hear of him again, that some good little Irish girl has made him forget his vows.
"My visitors, in other respects, have been of the average sort.

Four women have been delighted to make my acquaintance--three men have thought themselves in the presence of a superior being; one offered me twenty-five cents because I reached him the key of the museum.


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