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grounding in French and German grammar and nothing else, because I still don't understand mathematics and never will. Everything else I could have absorbed by reading, for I had long before formed that habit. I was much interested in "Horatuio" [sic] as the start of your career. No ordinary kid would have picked it - in fact, they don't like poetry at all. I, too read all of Alger and Henty and Harry Castleman, for girls' books were never my meat. The wilder they came, the better I liked them, which was strange, because I was very quiet and shy, and not at all a tomboy. The first long story I ever read was "East Lynne" at the age of 8. I cried over Lady Isabelle and hated Sir Francis Levinson, and years later, when I had my own home I bought a copy and gave it a permanent place in my book-case. My husband was worried afraid people would think I was a low-brow, much as my mother felt when at 10 years old, I crashed a Polish wedding and was dancing