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"So I was right when I suggested that his 'Mercy' had gone back on him," said Mr. Thomas Colvin McIntyre, with a semi-hysterical giggle. Average Jones looked from the peaceful face of the dead to the label, fluttering in the light breeze. "No," he said gravely. "You were wrong. It was his friend to the last."
Fairchild whilst you were dressing, with a pencil to write yes or no, and she wrote the right word; so Henry will not have to remind me. Mrs. Colvin always tells me not to put things off. But now you shall know what we are going to do.
Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an old and kindly custom of addressing it on the outside to one. Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? And so, my dear Sidney Colvin, it is with pride that I sign myself Affectionately yours, Many are the mighty things, and naught is more mighty than man.... He masters by his devices the tenant of the fields.
I have not written on Longfellow's sonnets, for even you, impeccable sonneteer, admit that you admire them as much as I do. To Thomas Egerton, Esq., Lothian College, Oxford. Dear Egerton, Yes, as you say, Mr. Sidney Colvin's new "Life of Keats" has only one fault, it's too short. Perhaps, also, it is almost too studiously free from enthusiasm. Colvin for his example of reserve.
Colvin tells me there has been an awful lot of money spent somewhere. 'Yes, Jerrie replied, 'but you gave him permission to spend it, and it would hardly be fair now to leave him with little or nothing, and he so broken down.
He knows all about the bonds, and mortgages, and stocks, so you cannot do better than to retain him in your service, overseeing matters yourself, of course, and drawing for your salary what you think right and necessary for your support and for keeping up the place as it ought to be kept up. I enclose a power of attorney. When I want money I shall call upon Colvin.
"I'll give you a voucher," he declared. "What's this job they've given me for? Am I just a knot on a mesquite stump? Can't my office stand for it? Charge it up to Insurance and the other two sideshows. Don't Statistics show that Amos Colvin came to this state when it was in the hands of Greasers and rattlesnakes and Comanches, and fought day and night to make a white man's country of it?
Stevenson insisted on this focus of attention in a passage of a personal letter addressed to Mr. Sidney Colvin: "Make another end to it? Ah, yes, but that's not the way I write; the whole tale is implied; I never use an effect when I can help it, unless it prepares the effects that are to follow; that's what a story consists in. To make another end, that is to make the beginning all wrong.
Colvin, the triangulating surveyor of the Adirondacks, killed him in his last official report to the State. Whether he despatched him with a theodolite or a barometer does not matter: he is officially dead, and none of the travelers can kill him any more. Yet he has served them a good turn. I knew that catamount well.
Yours ever, SIDNEY COLVIN. February, 1892. Monday. It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depôt of the railroad.
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