Untitled Page 346

cushion fights or even Highland
flings. I find a letter directed
to Theodora in my care which
I forward to her at once. She is
such a dear noble girl that I
respect as much as I love her
and I can't say more. Mr.
Allardice took Helen Younger
& me to see the new Stevenson
monument on the old plaza -
& read to us in his broad scotch
the inscription that has in it
it "be af able to renounce with-
out capitulations bitterness, to
have a few friends without
capitulations" and these two lines
have gone into the happy
holiday season as a kind of
refrain to be always mingled with