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says much, but I was working
with him all last summer
and if he doesn't feel your
absence as much as any one,
my name isn't McNaughton. Father
is gruff but he is a very emotional
man, but considers it a sign of
weakness to show any signs of it
and so he goes to other extremes.
He even gets mad at everything in
general in order to relieve his feelings.
I have had many a laugh to
myself, for if I say it myself,
I think I understand father better
than any of you. His ideas, of course,
are old fashioned, and so will
yours when you are his age and
so is everybody's.