After Life

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Excerpt from After Life: Sequel to 'the Journal of a Home Life' Intellectually, I hope Ina has profited by having been made to study a year longer than most girls in the present day. The absurdity of 'coming out, ' as it is called, at seventeen strikes me more and more. People talk about a course of deep reading which is to form the mind, but if the mind is not prepared for the course of reading, of what good will it be? The one year lost is just that which is more important than any that have gone before, because young people are beginning to know the value of what they learn. As to Cecil, I don't know what I have done with her. She has not come to the deep reading age, and I have not dared to press her with much work. Mrs. Bradshaw begged me one day to give her a receipt for turning out other girls like her, and asked me how I had managed to make her what she is. I could but say, borrowing an idea from Topsy, I let her grow.' Really and truly I am aware of nothing else, unless it may be that I have loved her, God only knows how dearly. Perhaps also I may add that I have given her confidence, and put upon her small responsibilities. Of positive teaching or direction she has had little or nothing, except in the way of regular study. She has not seemed to require it. The pure trans parent mind has apparently been unsullied even by the breath of self-consciousness. It has simply re¿ected heaven, and so it has become heavenly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.