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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
is reply came, two months later,-- University Club, 370 Fifth Avenue, New York, Sunday, Sept. 16, 1883. My dear Higginson,--There is a good deal, say what you will, in moral support. I have proved it during the last few weeks: 't would have been hard to get through with them, but for just such words as yours. And I have had them in such abundance that, despite rather poor displays of human nature in a sample of my own manufacture, I am less than ever a pessimist. As for that which Sophocles pronounced the father of meanness-peni/a-both my wife and myself have been used to it nearly all our lives, and probably shall have, now, to renew our old acquaintance with it. Though somewhat demoralized by a few years of Philistine comfort — the Persicos apparatus, &c.--I think we shall get along with sufficient dignity. We have suffered more, however, than the money-loss, bad as that is. And hence we are doubly grateful to those who, like yourself, send a cheery voice to us at just t