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No Greek statue was ever more classically beautiful than she was,lying there in the great living-room, which in its brief history had seenso much of the round of life. But she hasbecome subdued and gentle with age and never destroys the furniture now,except when uncommonly vexed. Rogers that he hadtranslated In Purgatory and sent it to Charles Frohman, who pronouncedit all jabber and no play. I turned & took the fan & said, Your Highness's place is in a fairy tale; & by & by I mean to write that tale, whereat she laughed a

and thatas the fancy moved him, and a drawer in one of his dressers began toaccumulate fresh though usually fragmentary manuscripts. He worked at it uninterruptedly, for in work; there was respite, thoughhis note-books show something of his mental torture, also his spiritualheresies. From constable up to President [runs his final clause] there is no office for which the two great parties cannot furnish able, clean, and acceptable men. Finished the book again--addition of 30,000 words.