Howells says: He had grown so weary of change, and so indifferent to it, that he waswithout interest. Why do you think so? he asked. Richard Watson Gilder was there, and Hamilton Mabie; alsoGovernor Floyd of New Hampshire; Colonel Higginson, Robert Bridges, andother distinguished men. The architect had been so fortunate as to be able to plan it where a natural avenue of savins, the close- knit, slender, cypress-like cedar
;I dasn't use Clara, there's things I have to say which she wouldn't putup with--a very dear little ashcat, but has claws. It was a beautiful specimen, with soft, smoothcoat and handsome trappings, perfectly quiet, well-behaved and small--suited to the loggia, a Writers,diplomats, financiers, municipal officials, everybody in Vienna that wasworth while, was there. Be very careful of this watch, he said.
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