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think you are admirably adapted
to teaching" and after another
long pause (I am horribly
conceited to tell this) he added
"It would be enough for the
pupils just to sit and look at
you", I replied something about
that might not earn me a
salary but I was in such
an ecstacy of delight that
I did little more than mumble.
He went on to say a great
many more lovely things and
to tell about the first time he
met Mama and how he was
struck with her intellectual
ability and with her beauty of
character and how her regretted
that he was not able to accept
her invitation to stay at our house