I
have slowly learned to attempt it; and it is not difficult if you
convince yourself that it can be done."
To this she answered the next day:
"I will do my best. There is danger and treachery everywhere; and
if it becomes unendurable I shall put an end to it in one way or
another. As for his threat--incident on my admitting that I did go
to your room, and defying him to dare believe evil of me for doing
it--I can laugh at it now--though, when I wrote you, I was
terrified--remembering how mentally broken my father was when he
died.
"But, as you say, I _am_ sound, body and mind. I _know_ it; I don't
doubt it for one moment--except--at long intervals when, apropos of
nothing, a faint sensation of dread comes creeping.
"But I am _sound_! I know it so absolutely that I sometimes wonder
at my own perfect sanity and understanding; and so clearly, so
faultlessly, so precisely does my mind work that--and this I never
told you--I am often and often able to detect mental inadequacy in
many people around me--the slightest deviation from the normal, the
least degree of mental instability.
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