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132 Mr. Story dropped a few pearls. It was an exquisite day at one of the most lovely houses on the sea. Every one was cordial, and as Mrs. James put a shawl over Mr. Longfellow's shoulders he said, "The world is in tune." He helped to make it so.

The third interview was at his own house, where he thanked me for my translation of Carcassonne, which he said Bret Harte bad sent to him, and which he incorporated in his volume. Poems of Places. There was something in his praise which the heart does not willingly let die. Vale.