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Updated: May 16, 2025
But on entering the hall my friends and I soon forgot everything but the speaker. The dim-lit hall, the handful audience, the contrast of both with the illuminated chapel and ocean multitude assembled overhead, bespeak painfully the estimation in which the great cause of peace is held in Christendom. I wish all Christendom could have heard Elihu Burritt's speech.
My cousin Lenox is there on leave!" panted Diana. "So I understand from Mrs. Burritt's letter, but I certainly cannot allow you to go." "Not go?" Diana's face was a study. "I had no authority from your father and mother to allow you to accept invitations." "But I know they'd let me! Oh, Miss Todd, I simply must!" "That's for me to decide, Diana, not you, and I say 'no'."
However, the meeting was a glorious one, and will long be remembered with delight as a step onward in the cause of Peace. Burritt's Brotherhood Bazaar followed close upon the heels of the Peace Congress; and this had scarcely closed, when that ever-memorable meeting of the American Fugitive Slaves took place in the Hall of Commerce. The Temperance people made the next reformatory move.
"Which other have you got a letter to?" the young man temporized. "None. But " "Then I'm afraid it's no use without an appointment. Anyhow, this isn't the right hour to snapshot editors of daily papers. They're night-blooming flowers. Would you like to try for an appointment with Mr. Shaw, Burritt's successor?" Win thanked him, but thought it would be no use.
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