Jean Webster
Dear Enemy
Paperback
(Independently published Sept. 16, 2020)
Book Excerpt: ...d is a mother apiece.I plunged into this thing lightly enough, partly because you were too persuasive, and mostly, I honestly think, because that scurrilous Gordon Hallock laughed so uproariously at the idea of my being able to manage an asylum. Between you all you hypnotized me. And then of course, after I began reading up on the subject and visiting all those seventeen institutions, I got excited over orphans, and wanted to put my own ideas into practice. But now I'm aghast at finding myself here; it's such a stupendous undertaking. The future health and happiness of a hundred human beings lie in my hands, to say nothing of their three or four hundred children and thousand grandchildren. The thing's geometrically progressive. It's awful. Who am I to undertake this job? Look, oh, look for another superintendent!Jane says dinner's ready. Having eaten two of your institution meals, the thought of another doesn't excite me.LATER.The staff had mutton hash and spinach, with tapioca...
- ISBN
- / 9798678095916
- Pages
- 157
- Weight
- 8.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.4 in.
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