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it quite as intimate as the other
relation is disagreeable. When
therefore, a criticism appears in
editorial guise which destroys
that small sense of a sym-
pathetic mind at the other
end of the line, - or of the
world, as in this case; - then
every thing changes: the only
humane factor in the ac-
quaintanceship disappearing.
I see that you
did not understand I was
a pioneer. So would have
been very hard indeed to
find somebody else who had
resided in Izumo, - except
a Bible-woman, - in my time.
Now I know there are a
few missionaries there; but
I object to criticism by
missionaries. There are