A Bundle of Letters by Henry James (books to read to get smarter .TXT) 📕

tel isn't much; but the piano is better thanthat fearful old thing at the Sebago House. Sometimes I godownstairs and talk to the lady who keeps the books--a French lady,who is remarkably polite. She is very pretty, and always wears ablack dress, with the most beautiful fit; she speaks a littleEnglish; she tells me she had to learn it in order to converse withthe Americans who come in such numbers to this hotel. She has givenme a great deal of information about the position of woman in France,and much of it is very encouraging. But she has told me at the sametime some things that I should not like to write to you (I amhesitating even about putting them into my journal), especially if myletters are to be handed round in the family. I assure you theyappear to talk about things here that we never think of mentioning atBangor, or even of thinking about. She seems to think she can tellme everything, because I told her I was travelling for generalculture. Well, I DO want to know so much that it