Page:Letters of a Javanese princess, by Raden Adjeng Kartini, 1921.djvu/269

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LETTERS OF A JAVANESE PRINCESS

from his favourite child! May God forgive me, but it is not he alone who has suffered and who will suffer; we too have striven and suffered. We pray God fervently that in the course of time he may see the truth and will learn to be proud of his little daughters. That we may atone to him in some measure for the deep disappointment we are causing him now.

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