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A BUNDLE OF LETTERS

CHAPTER I

FROM MISS MIRANDA MOPE, IN PARIS, TO MRS. ABRAHAM
C. MOPE, AT BANGOR, MAINE.
September 5th, 1879.
My dear mother--I have kept you posted as far as Tuesday week last,
and, although my letter will not have reached you yet, I will begin
another before my news accumulates too much. I am glad you show my
letters round in the family, for I like them all to know what I am doing,
and I can't write to every one, though I try to answer all reasonable
expectations. But there are a great many unreasonable ones, as I
suppose you know--not yours, dear mother, for I am bound to say that
you never required of me more than was natural. You see you are
reaping your reward: I write to you before I write to any one else.
There is one thing, I hope--that you don't show any of my letters to
William Platt. If he wants to see any of my letters, he knows the right
way to go to work. I wouldn't have him see one of these letters, written
for circulation in the family, for anything in the world. If he wants one
for himself, he has got to write to me first. Let him write to me first,
and then I will see about answering him. You can show him this if you
like; but if you show him anything more, I will never write to you
again.
I told you in my last about my farewell to England, my crossing the
Channel, and my first impressions of Paris. I have thought a great deal
about that lovely England since I left it, and all the famous historic
scenes I visited; but I have come to the conclusion that it is not a
country in which I should care to reside. The position of woman does

not seem to me at all satisfactory, and that is a point, you know, on
which I feel very strongly. It seems to me that in England they play a
very faded-out part, and those with whom I conversed had a kind of
depressed and humiliated tone; a little dull, tame look, as if they were
used to being snubbed and bullied, which made me want to give them a
good shaking. There are a great many people--and a great many things,
too--over here that I should like to perform that operation upon. I
should like to shake the starch out of some of them, and the dust out of
the others. I know fifty girls in Bangor that come much more up to my
notion of the stand a truly noble woman should