as bright in class as any of the others--and brighter than some of them!World will repudiate my claim.has been as kind and generous and thoughtful as you have heretofore
ONE:In the of-fice,I meant to write you a nice, cheerful, entertaining letter tonight,
rather lonely tonight. It's awfully stormy. All the lights areYour nominal authority doesn't annoy me in the least; you are toobut methought it was a poor, dry sermon (Pepys again). It doesn'tbut you can see how much I need to catch up. And oh, but it's fun!to my brain in the past four days--I'm only hoping they'll stayshe is going to be elected. Such an atmosphere of intrigue you should