If you don't mind, my dear. He was taken very ill. Laird concluded to fight, at last. Henry Ward Beecher was advertised as one of the party;General Sherman as another; also ministers, high-class journalists--thebest minds of the nation.
Someone gave him a beating, which I do not doubt he well deserved-because he had tried to interfere with their Many reports of Mark Twain's new book hadbeen traveling the rounds of the press, some of which declared it was tobe irreverent, even blasphemous, in tone. Of course, one must always pay the price, usually a vexatious one. Holmes agreed to sign it with asmile, and the comment that governments were not in the habit of settingthemselves up as high moral examples, except for revenue.
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