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time immemorial been held back and kept down. It is a pity, but that is how it works out.   Inc is well supplied with natural instincts for propagation, as she has already shown, and is ready now to settle down and bear children, and then her instinct will come forward and demand she take care of them. And there will go all her fine plans.    Be thankful that as yet your physical instincts for procreation haven't developed to the point you have to have a man, and can still study away in your scholar's cell. It is a blessing to be able to develop slowly. So don't wail and moan because you aren't a duck like the others, but make the utmost of your time. You have the heritage of good ancestry, have the health and breeding and intelligence, and it is up to you to live up to the best within you; and don't let anyone deter you from blossoming out into the best, [[strikethrough]] now [[/strikethrough]] not fizzling out like a bad egg.     No one that amounts to anything can do everything. The real intellectualist is not a social butterfly. What you have never shown any inclination for you will never become. It isn't in you to like everyone and mix with everyone.  You will have a few fine close friends, but not be very social, and there is no use bewailing the fact. The main thing is to know yourself and make the most of that self, not try to push it into a round hole if it is square.  You seem to have a certain creative sense. That demands being by yourself, standing by yourself, to develop, with certain stimulus.

We are both looking forward to seeing you as soon as school is over. Don't fear that you will stagnate this summer. There will be a lot to do & think. I am sorry