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of strength comes. I suppose it will
come if I live long enough to
grow a little more. Perhaps
you have read those few notes
I gave the firm for a biographical
notice - and guessed between
the lines. But you could not
guess all: how very ugly and
difficult life has been, - and
those phases of to which a
man does not care to mention
even to his friends. A question
is whether this side of exis-
-tence ought to be mentioned
or ought not, - on the general
principles that the abnormal
is not a subject for study
--much less for art. Perhaps
this might be said, that shadows
are necessary in every picture
--except a Japanese print.