Father and son : a study of two temperaments / by Edmund Gosse.

  • Edmund Gosse
Date:
1910
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    discussed theology, read aloud to one another, or translated scientific brochures from French or German. It sounds a terrible life of pressure and deprivation, and that it was physically unwholesome there can be no shadow of a doubt. But their contentment was complete and unfeigned. In the midst of this, materially, the hardest moment of their lives, when I was one year old, and there was a question of our leaving London, my Mother recorded in her secret notes :— “ We are happy and contented, having all things needful and pleasant, and our present habitation is hallowed by many sweet associa- tions. We have our house to ourselves and enjoy each other’s society. If we move we shall no longer be alone. The situation may be mere favourable, however, for Baby, as being more in the country. I desire to have no choice in the matter, but as I know not what would be for our good, and God knows, so I desire to leave it with Him, and if it is not His will we should move, He will raise objections and difficulties, and if it is His will He will make Henry [my Father] desirous and anxious to take the step, and then, whatever the result, let us leave all to Him and not regret it.” No one who is acquainted with the human heart will mistake this attitude of resignation