Now, I am ready and willing to carry out my
obligations to them. I am prepared to do all that is in my power to
bring them up in the right way, to make good men and women of them. I
am not willing, however, to palm them off on other people without
first telling those people what they are to expect. I do not blame
these boys and girls for resenting what fate has brought them to. It
is quite natural that they should feel as they do. I do not call it
ingratitude. It is human nature. Even a small boy may reveal symptoms
of human nature, Mrs. Force, if you get him into a corner. Now, I want
to say to you and your friends here that I will let them go on one
condition, and that is that each goes into a home that I personally
approve of and only after I have told the head of that home all that I
know about the child he seeks to adopt. I appreciate your interest in
my behalf and I thank you for your untiring efforts. I believe that
you are sincerely in earnest. But I ask you to do me the honour of
permitting me to get out of my bad bargain in my own way and in my own
time.
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