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sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, as Scripture so wisely reminds us. He reported his troubles toOrion: I have made a superb contract for a book, and have prepared the first ten chapters of the sixty or eighty, but I will bet it never sees the light. At the end of a yearfrom its date of publication the book had sold up to 67,000 and wascontinuing at the rate of several thousand monthly. On herbirthday in the year we are now closing (1875) he wrote her a letterwhich conveys an acknowledgment of his debt.

But I know Richardson, andlearned from him some months ago something of an idea of the subscriptionplan of publishing. Our council of war had convened. ay when, acapering frescoed clown, he would set crowded tiers of spectatorsguffawing at his humor; when the tra But we can, Ramses insisted.