We would not but one lady maintained the affirmative. "Oh no you wouldn't really dear " argued a friend; "you THINK you would. " "Yes I would " persisted the first lady; "I am tired of myself. I'd even be you for a change. " In my youth the question chiefly important to me was--What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say "I wish Fate hadn't made me this sort of man. " In those days I was a reader of much well-meant advice to young men and... read more
