Things do go so contrary-like with me. I wanted to hit upon an
especially novel, out-of-the-way subject for one of these articles. "I
will write one paper about something altogether new," I said to myself;
"something that nobody else has ever written or talked about before; and
then I can have it all my own way." And I went about for days, trying to
think of something of this kind; and I couldn't. And Mrs. Cutting, our
charwoman, came yesterday--I don't mind mentioning her name, because I
know she will not see this book. She would not look at such a frivolous
publication. She never reads anything but the Bible and _Lloyd's Weekly
News_. All other literature she considers unnecessary and sinful.