9/16 I teach only English to the senior classes. "I've come--I hope you won't mind--Mrs.Bell, Elfrida has been quoting Rousseau in her compositions, and I thought you'd like to know." "In the original ?" asked Mrs.Bell, with interest. "I didn't think her French was advanced enough for that." "No, from a translation," Miss Kimpsey replied. "Her sentence ran: 'As the gifted Jean Jacques Rousseau told the world in his "Confessions"'-- I forget the rest. That was the part that struck me most. |