"Russia is rather dilatory in her methods, but I surely should
know within two or three weeks whether I am going to succeed or
not. If not, then there is no use in waiting there. I shall try
to persuade the Prince to accompany me to America. During the
weeks I am waiting in St. Petersburg I shall continually
impress upon him the utter futility of a life which has not
investigated the great electrical power plant at Niagara Falls. And
then he is interested in the educational system of the United States.
While we were going to the station early that morning he told me that
the United States educational system must be the most wonderful in the
world, because he found that your friend, Miss Katherine Kempt, knew
more about electricity, metallurgy, natural philosophy and a great
number of other things he is interested in, than all the ladies he has
met in Europe put together. He thinks that's the right sort of
education for girls, and all this rather astonished me, because,
although your friend was most charming, she said nothing during my
very short acquaintance with her to lead me to suspect that she had
received a scientific training.
"Dear Miss Amhurst, I am looking every day for a letter from you,
but none has yet been received by the Admiralty, who, when they get
one, will forward it to whatever part of the world I happen to be in."
CHAPTER VIII
"WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME"
A SUMMER hotel that boasts a thousand acres of forest, more or less,
which serve the purposes of a back-yard, affords its guests, even if
all its multitude of rooms are occupied, at least one spot for each
visitor to regard as his or her favorite nook.
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