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Downing’s motto, Il bello è il buono. A real luxury
obtains in food, fruits, and in many small things,
but it makes no outward show; it exists, as it
were, concealed in the inner richness and exquisite
selection of the thing itself. I did not expect to
meet this type of home in the young New World.
I thought that here I should be free from visitors
for a time at least. But no, alas! Last evening
as I sat with my friends in their peaceful parlor,
there came, amid the darkness, storm, and rain, the
editor of Sartain’s Union Magazine in Philadelphia,
Professor Hart, who immediately on the announcement
of my arrival in the newspapers, had traveled
from Philadelphia to New York, and from New York
had followed me hither, merely, as he said, to
"monopolize" me for his magazine, begging me to
write for it, and for no other, during my visit
to America. So much for American enterprise in
matters of business. For the rest, there was so
much gentlemanly refinement in his manner, and a
something so benevolently good and agreeable in his
pale, delicate countenance, that I could not help
taking a fancy to him and giving him my word that if
I should write anything for publication in America
I would leave it in his hands. But I doubt whether I
shall write anything. Here I need to think and learn.
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