On June 1st I find in my note-book this entry: Warm and pleasant. Nothing but the strictest hiding can enable me to write my book in time. There were the three big volumes by Saint-Simon--'The Memoirs'--which heonce told me he had read no less than twenty times. to enjoy it above all other dissipations yet, seeing that it has about it the elements of stability & permanency.
Henry Irving said: I have just got back from a very late rehearsal-five o'clock--very tired--but there will be no rest till I get your autograph. He made a birthday aphorism on thesubject: The man who is a pessimist before he is forty-eight knows too much; theman who is an optimist after he is forty-eight knows too little. He said: I am here to speak a few instructive words to my fellow-farmers. re; Green sod above lie light, lie light Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.
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