Uncle Joe listened quite seriously, his head bowed a little, as if itwere really a petition, as in fact it was. Perfectly correct! An immense admission for a man not otherwise sane. ' The Himalayas to him, the highest peak, would be one-sixty-thousandth of his height, or about the one- thousandth part of an inch as compared with the average man. Death--the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whosepeace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure--the rich andthe poor--the loved and the unloved.
But Harvey had something different inview: something more splendid even than the sixty-seventh birthday feast,more pretentious, indeed, than any former literary gathering. The appreciation closes: I have only wished to say how fine and beautiful was his life and character, and to take He said that, while no arrangements had been madewith the Century Company, he thought it only fair and right t I would have walked a great many miles to get a sight of him, and here he was, without trouble, or tramp, or cost of any kind.
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