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Excerpt from Sherwood Bonner: Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South
Her education was conducted under her father's eve, and as he pressed the chalice to eager lips, little did he guess that he was entertaining genius unawares. At school she could not have been accounted a hard student. Her mind slaked its thirst at the pure fountain of the muses; history was a joy, literature a delight, and the composition, a task hated by most of her schoolmates, a pleasant pastime; but she looked askance at the sciences, and pronounced life too short for geometry. During her last year at school she wrote an allegory. It is the work of a tyro in art, but was regarded by her schoolmates a remarkable production.
The morning of her life was bright, and with father, mother, sister, brother, around the family hearth, each pass ing day brought added happiness. Even the dark clouds that began to lower in the North, ere she passed the limits of girlhood, did not bring sadness, for she with many older heads in the South failed to comprehend what these fore shadowed. But she was now to receive the baptism of sor row, and to gain through suffering needed training and added strength.
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