It had never been my fortune before to live in a household with an educated man at its head, and I felt a little shy of your father but soon found there was no occasion.

Although it was a period of great financial depression, he always found time to be social and kindly in his family.

He seemed to have an eye for everything, his business, the school and every good work.

I considered your father and mother a model husband and wife and found it hard to leave such a loving home."] [Footnote 5: In later years the younger children were instructed on piano and violin, and he enjoyed nothing better than listening to them.] [Footnote 6: In reading them over, sixty years afterwards, she said mournfully, "That has been the way all my life.

Whenever I take a pen in hand I always seem to be mounted on stilts." To those who are acquainted with her simple, straightforward style of speaking, this will seem hardly possible, yet it is probably one of the reasons which led her, very early in her public career, to abandon all attempts at written speeches.].