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In a subsequentdictation he said: I am glad I have lived to see that half-hour--that astonishing half- hour. ing of myfiftieth year; taken away the pain of it, the grief of it, the somehowshame of it, and made me glad and proud it happened. Indifferent to nearly everything but work. Major Pond had proposed.

My room was only a little distanceaway, and Claude came for me. We were in a most miserable & shameful situation, & it---- Just then the door spread wide & our Princess & A little later; at the foot of the garden of bay and cedar,neighbors, inspired by Dan Beard, who had recently located near by, setoff some fireworks. And then the family: If I could convey theelectrical surprise and gratitude and exaltation of the wife and thechild