"No--no money for the work he did for the blind. Karl intended that as a
gift. He would be so glad to know of its usefulness. He thought it all
wrong that books for the blind were so expensive, and so many of the
great things not to be had.
"Karl used to repeat a little verse of Heine, which he translated like
this:"
'At first I did not even hope,
And to a hostile fate did bow--
But I learned to bear the burden--
Only do not ask me how.'
"I have learned to bear it here in Paris--only do not ask me how. I could
not say. I do not know.
"But I want to tell you of a few of the good things. You would not
believe what that work in the laboratory has done for me. It has given me
a new understanding of colour--new sense of it, new power with eye and
hand, a better sense of values. Would you have thought of that? And do
you not see the reasons for my being glad?
"What I have done so far is but leading up to what I am going to do. That
is so vital that it must not be done too quickly.
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