They Are Beautiful
Also, And, As I Believe, Lack Nothing That A Lover Can Desire In His
Love.
But I cannot fancy myself much in love with a Western lady,
or rather with a lady in the West.
They are as sharp as nails, but
then they are also as hard. They know, doubtless, all that they
ought to know, but then they know so much more than they ought to
know. They are tyrants to their parents, and never practice the
virtue of obedience till they have half-grownup daughters of their
own. They have faith in the destiny of their country, if in nothing
else; but they believe that that destiny is to be worked out by the
spirit and talent of the young women. I confess that for me Eve
would have had no charms had she not recognized Adam as her lord. I
can forgive her in that she tempted him to eat the apple. Had she
come from the West country, she would have ordered him to make his
meal, and then I could not have forgiven her.
St. Louis should be, and still will be, a town of great wealth. To
no city can have been given more means of riches. I have spoken of
the enormous mileage of water communication of which she is the
center. The country around her produces Indian-corn, wheat,
grasses, hemp, and tobacco. Coal is dug even within the boundaries
of the city, and iron mines are worked at a distance from it of a
hundred miles.
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