29/62 He really has promised to adopt three orphans. He is now filled with enthusiasm at the idea. He is to go to the _Cure_ and talk to him. He told me that his own father had fallen down in a fit one day as they were talking together, and that he had caught him in his arms, and put him to bed, where he died, and that he himself had often thought how dreadful it was that if he had a fit there was no one to catch him in his arms. |