And we were startled by a Madonna dropping to the floor, leaving its frame on the wall.

Instantly Professor Putnam remarked: "Her willing soul would not stay 'in such a frame as this.'" And when called to preside at the organ when the college choir was away, he whispered to me, "Listen to my interludicrous performance." How sad the end! A delicate constitution conquered by tuberculosis.
With his wife he sought a milder climate abroad and died there.

But no one can compute the good accomplished even by his unconscious influence, for everything was of the purest, highest, best.
Soon after my return from St.Louis, I received a call from Packer Institute in Brooklyn, to teach English Literature, which was most agreeable.

But when I arrived, the principal, Mr.Crittenden, told me that the woman who had done that work had decided to remain.

I was asked by Mr.Crittenden, "Can you read ?" "Yes, I think so." "Then come with me." He touched a bell and then escorted me to the large chapel capable of holding nearly twelve hundred, where I found the entire faculty assembled to listen to my efforts.