Howells is going away, he said, and I should like to give him a stag-party. Hemade a speech to them that night at the Waldorf--where he proposed forthe City College a chair of citizenship, an idea which met with heartyapplause. Now I am ready for dissipation with a good conscience. My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing & full of cruelties, vanities, arrogancies, meannesses, & hypocrisies.
Often he mustenlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able tosee it. And if he is a swell invalid who isn't obliged to depend uponparks for his country air he can drive inside--if he owns his vehicle. How near he came to playing the devil with his future publisher. All down the Bay of Bengal it was so.
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