twenty years at hull house
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ashamed of my meager notion of patriotism, and I came out of the
room exhilarated with the consciousness that impersonal and international relations are actual tacts and not mere phrases. I was filled vvi th
pride that 1 knew a man who held converse with great minds and who
really sorrowed and rejoiced over happenings across the sea. I never
recall those early conversations with my father, nor a score ot others
like them, hut there comes into my mind a line from Mrs. Browning in
which a daughter describes her relations with her father: —
He wrapt me in his large
Man's doublet, careless did it tit or no.
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