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[[start page]] 184 [[red vertical line down the length of page]] rely discouraged. He explained me how he is he is gathering a fund for circulating a secretly a few chosen books in a little box provided with key and lock, which is sent in the country so that the priest - ridden population may be able to read books forbidden by the clergy I wondered what the books were which he is sending around clandestinely "Self-Help" and "Character" by Samuel Smiles, [[underlined]] bound together [[/underlined]] with novels of Henri Conscune! X Poor priest ridden people, hopelessly run down by centuries of ignorance and bad examples. [[writing in margin: So that the clericals may not be aware of the liberalising contents of the books! [[end page]] [[start page]] 185 [[red line down length of page in left margin]] Ignorance, [[?]] drunkenness, lack of self control, and sensuality! Miss Federing is home and sits in an armchair. I felt still more nervous after this long conversation with Federing which exposed to me a condition of affairs of backwardness [[strikethrough]] which I [[strikethrough]] worse then I supposed. Took a very simple lunch then tried to sleep but [[underlined]] Remouchamps [[/underlined]] and his whole family came to hotel He persuaded me against my desire to take a walk with one of his sons, through dusty, windy badly kept ^ [[dogs excrements everywhere]] towards [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]