]Mark Twain probably exaggerated his sentiments a good deal when in theCarlyle letter he claimed to be the most rabid of Sansculottes. I am not cussing altogether about myown little troubles. A vocabulary, then, is sometimes a handicap? It is indeed. How many things have happened in the seven years I have been away from home! We have fought a righteous war, and a righteous war is a rare thing in history.
Dickinson naturally kept this letter from the public, though he readit aloud to the assembled librarians, and the fact of its existence andits character eventually leaked out. He had required onlythat there should be one great living-room for the orchestrelle, andanother big room for the billiard-table, with plenty of accommodationsfor guests. And then you may turn your back to the crater and look far away upon thebroad valley below, with its sugar-houses glinting like white specks inth It was just about thestroke of midnight when he finished, and a moment later the horns beganto play chimes and Auld Lang Syne and America.
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