Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . ZELIE BASSE PASSAVANT. PHILLIPPE LOUIS PASSAVANT CHILDHOOD OF W. A. PA88AVANT. 25 truth that children have their guardian angel watching overthem, that he was not dashed to pieces. Every day he is ex-posing himself to danger in some shape or other by his extremefearlessness. Again four months after this, she writes: Willie, whomI asked just now what I should write to his Detta, wishes totell you that he is a good boy—which, however you ought notto believe too implicitly. When he is good, he is indeed mostengagingly so, but there is many a storm and shower
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . ZELIE BASSE PASSAVANT. PHILLIPPE LOUIS PASSAVANT CHILDHOOD OF W. A. PA88AVANT. 25 truth that children have their guardian angel watching overthem, that he was not dashed to pieces. Every day he is ex-posing himself to danger in some shape or other by his extremefearlessness. Again four months after this, she writes: Willie, whomI asked just now what I should write to his Detta, wishes totell you that he is a good boy—which, however you ought notto believe too implicitly. When he is good, he is indeed mostengagingly so, but there is many a storm and shower producedby the quickness of his passions, which will require constantattention and firmness to curb and control. These are all the notices of the boy that we have from her? pen. As we shall find as we proceed with our story, Mrs. Passa-vant was an unusually gifted and interesting letter writer . Ifw6 could have access to the letters she wrote during Williamschildhood, we should doubtless have a vivid and satisfactoryaccount of that promising child. In
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