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Le Devoir
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A [[underline]] child [[/underline]] grown up in an tempestuous family. Father not respected & causing his wife, a proud and severe woman of high temper, untold suffering.

Father very intelligent but not in character. One daughter inherits only the temper of her mother but the weak qualities of the father, and a son very much the same. The third, a girl unusually endowed with astonishing [[??]]aptions far ahead of her years, pride and ambition and high intelligence, together with her mother's temper and a restless intolerance of what she giv[[?]] observes to be false or vulgar about her.

She returns finally from her convent education. Constant quarrels in the family.

A sullen discontent and [[?]] extraordinary obstinacy on her part makes her unendurable & [[?]] even her mother against her.

Father looses position & [[?]] money. Alice studies [[?]] and accepts a position as teacher in the normal school for teachers. Scholars [[?]] to her recitations and lectures.

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or nieces--

She must die.

And I the last of all admiring those whom she has inspired & delighted am left to write the tale.

"Ye of the race that shall remain in blooming life, mark well what I announce to you! --When you have seen the Siegfried & Brünnhilde consumed by the kindling flames, when ye have seen the Rhine daughters return the ring to the depths, then look ye northward through the night: if there ye see a holy glow shining in the heavens, so know ye all that ye have seen the end of Valhalla.

When the race of gods has passed away like a breath, I leave behind me the world without rulers. now bequeath to the world the treasures of my most sacred knowledge. -- Not possessions, nor gold, nor godlike splendor; not house, nor court, nor lovely show; not the deceitful bond of dim contracts, nor the hard

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