13/36 You will soon learn why, and learning will be thankful. But to make clear to you why I urge him--in fact, order him to go--requires a word of explanation. He is now only twenty-six years of age but looks older. He married young and not wisely a woman who lived a childlike dissatisfied life, and died after two years. One of his brothers died an epileptic; the other, a promising lawyer, became insane and killed himself. |