One marked feature of General Grant's character is his exceeding gentleness, goodness, sweetness. The play was well written and staged, and Elsie Leslie wascharming enough in her parts, but in the duality lay the difficulty. He wrote Hall that the book would be ready soon and thatthere must be seventy-five thousand orders by the date of issue, not asingle one short of that. Every male guest who comes to my house will have to contribute a dollar or go away without his baggage.
He worked at it uninterruptedly, for in work; there was respite, thoughhis note-books show something of his mental torture, also his spiritualheresies. Apparently the news had already reached Howells and Clemens,and they had been feverishly discussing what was best to do about thedinner. He thought it an admirablebuilding-site, and I think he was pleased with the name. The weather was pleasant in Baltimore, and his visit to St.
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