o be in the directionof enlargement--a further removal from the human conception, and theproblem of what we call our lives. Thus far I regard this as your masterpiece! You are really perfect in the great art of reducing simple & dignified speech to clumsy & vapid commonplace. It took couragein those days to do a thing like that; but I think the same thing wouldhappen to-day. Clemens's window, where they couldread their manuscripts to each other, and tell their stories and laughtheir hearts out without disturbing her.
Onceto Richard Watson Gilder he sent this line of regrets: In bed with a chest cold and other company--Wednesday. Altogether, the trip had been prosperous. Eventually he employeda secretary to stand between him and the wash of the tide, as a sort ofbreakwater; but he seldom lost his t It is a fine one.
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