p.

and then I read again his poem
"Love." - which pictures so many of
our mutual sentiments. So much for
Lowell, all for you and Claire, - they
seemed to speak to us so truthfully, -
but for a contrast took from my books,
Holmes Poems, - And from "The
Autocrat at the breakfast table" read
aloud several which were inspiring
and filled with pathos and
humor. Some very laughable, and
soon found I was watching a
sitting room clock that had
stopped at a quarter to four, and
now it was a quarter past five.
So hurry I must not to disappoint
Laura and Leicester.-
When I arrived Leicester said, -