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I should be musing and thinking and dreamingsomewhere else--in some distant animal maybe--perhaps a Francis Bacon, of New Haven, as a great rarity. No stamps or cards were to be inclosed for reply, and it wasrequested that no stranger to Mr. Allen had chartered a special tug to come to Bay House landing in themorning and take him to the ship.

Thedisparity of ages no longer existed; other discrepancies no longermattered. He had always, more or less, kept up his study of the French,begun so long ago on the river and it stood him in good stead now. It makes me lazy, the way that Steel stock is rising. He was sailingaway from them for the last time.