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can, and will, however, spend much time at Four 
Oaks; and I need not say they approved our 
plans. 
Jack is our second. He was a junior at Yale, 
and I am shy of saying much about him lest I 
be accused of partiality. Enough to say that he 
is tall, blond, handsome, and that he has gentle, 
winning ways that draw the love of men and 
women. He is a dreamer of dreams, but he has 
a sturdy drop of Puritan blood in his veins that 
makes him strong in conviction and brave in 
action. Jack has never caused me an hour of 
anxiety, and I was ever proud to see him in any 
company. 
Concerning Jane, I must be pardoned in ad- 
vance for a father’s favoritism. She is my 
youngest, and to me she seems all that a father 
could wish. Of fair height and well moulded, 
her physique is perfect. Good health and a 
happy life had set the stamp of superb woman- 
hood upon her eighteen years. Any effort to 
describe her would be vain and unsatisfactory. 
Suffice it to say that she is a pure blonde, with 
eyes, hair, and skin just to my liking. She is 
quiet and shy in manner, deliberate in speech, 
sensitive beyond measure, wise in intuitive judg- 
ment, clever in history and literature, but always 
a little in doubt as to the result of putting seven 
and eight together, and not unreasonably domi- 
nated by the rules of orthography. She is fond 
of outdoor life, in love with horses and dogs, 
