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of all human weakness that I have the most contempt for. Nothing is so beautiful to me as Purity. The Com' write me they believe in me and for me to just treat it with dignified silence. Why Mr Kimble I can't do that. It hurts my pride so And angers me that I can't. Oh if I were a man despite my Quaker education & Parentage, Why I'd demand justice of L't Obrien. Oh how I would thrash him. Thee will think this is foolish. I'll never forgive him. To think there is one person who [[underlined]] dare [[/underlined]] say that about me. Why I would not think of believing such a charge against any one much less saying so. If I did not have the strongest proof of their guilt. This morning I was told that L't Obrien has said I am to leave here soon and in disgrace. You will not employ me. And that the other Teacher down here wants me away because I [[underlined]] will [[/underlined]] teach much as I ought to, and thus she has to. Dr [[?]] knows how unfaithful to her school is Ella [[Sobb?]]. But she need not worry. I'll not interfere with any one so long as they let me

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surname of other teacher--Ella Lobb? Sobb? Please double-check.