If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of … - Jane Swisshelm

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There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

Jane Swisshelm

If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.

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