iterature, and at the close of the discussionof that subject, referring to Milton and Scott, he said: In a letter written to Mr. I had been absent the evening before, and Littleton had beenover. He expressed a wish for some person ofinfluence and wide acquaintance, and walked up and down, smokinggloomily.
He explained that he had hired aman to play the trombone, but he, on learning that he was the only personengaged, came at the last moment and informed him that he could not play. We were entirelyalone, and I felt the great honor of being his only guest on such anoccasion. As we drove into the lane that led to the Stormfield entrance, he said: Can we see where you have built your billiard-room? The gable showed above the trees, and I pointed it out to him. Crane hadsent him lines which he had remembered in the sorrow for Susy: When last came sorrow, around barn and byre Wind-careen snow, the year's white sepulchre, lay.
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