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10 letters
relate to Feelings - guilt
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The Hague, 22 or 23 August 1883
"But if she wants to come with me, do let her. Leaving her would mean driving her back to prostitution - how could this be done by the same hand that tried to save her?"
The Hague, 6 or 7 September 1883
"Oh, Theo, you will understand how I feel these days, so very melancholy about the woman and the children - but it could not be helped;"
Drenthe, 11 and 12 September 1883
"I have provided her with all kinds of things as well as I could, but she will have a hard time."
Drenthe, c. 15 September 1883
"I often think with melancholy of the woman and the children, if only they were provided for; oh, it's the woman's fault, one might say, and it would be true, but I am afraid her misfortunes will prove greater than her guilt. I knew from the beginning that her character was spoiled, but I hoped she would improve; and now that I do not see her any more and ponder some things I saw in her, it seems t..."
Drenthe, c. 17 September 1883
"Personally, I would rather have stayed with the woman, though it would have been doubly difficult; but as far as I could see, it was impossible under the circumstances. And if I constantly imagine her as a phantom, it is not as a reproachful one, but I am melancholy because I did not have the means to act toward her as I should have wished. Times are hard, and you will have your share of it."
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