Hail and Farewell - Vale #255221

And I returned to my chair frightened, feeling that if I did not learn to read my life would become a burden to me and to others. Everybody will fly from me, my friends will melt away. Edward wouldn't open to me the other night, he preferred his book to my talk, and he continues to struggle through Ruskin, and John Eglinton toils at 'don Quixote.' Those fellows can live alone, and E ah, well, AC 1.