Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 554
that I am an A WISE MAN FROM THE EAST 313 old man, and give me a higher seat and pay medeference by keeping at a distance from me. Butif I could show you my heart, you would find itgreen and young—perhaps younger than some ofyou who are standing before me. And you would when scarcely more than six,… … THE SCHOOL AT BOLPUR—SHANTINUvETAN, THE HOUSE OF PEACE. find, also, that I am childish enough to believe inthings which the grown-up people of the modernage, with their superior wisdom, have becomeashamed to own —and even modern school-boysalso. That is to say, I believe in an ideal life.I believe…
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