.NjY4.MTQxMg

Unspeakable glory and joy! "All paths lead out to the Sea: beyond all Hereafters dwells the Unnameable. What can we do, dear friend, but take reverently the gifts He sends, and walk uncovered the paths along which He draws." Thank you for bringing to me "an audacious trust" in the truth of my friendship. That is right; neither should you else be welcome. It may be that - overlaid with false methods - the world has left in it too little of manhood for woman to trust, and too little of womanhood for man to revere. I know not. But man be all selfishness the soul is still a God, with wings lying perdu behind its shoulders. And this is natural, that if with counterfeit keys we pick the locks of lives, we shall find only counterfeits and falsities : while to him who seeks only the soul the soul will give royal greeting. Moreover, I was taught to revere the sanctity of Woman; while further, I hold the issue in which my poor services are enlisted to be the most gracious of all these later years. Madam; I should be sorry either to forget the teachings of my dead mother, or to render myself unworthy to lift voice or sword