SERIOUSLY AND POLITELY I tell the story to persons of the loss of you.
It was good to see you. It was really good to see you. Oh, you are lucky.
If the pleasant world contains, as we hope it does, anything of lasting value, which was once mine, I believe you have it.
In anger, therefore, in anger, I send documents in the midst of this ritual as I tell the story of the loss of you. This is the delayed discovery of you somewhere mysterious here in New York City, then the disappearance of you again and again!—is it that you do not approve of me? That’s what I think.
I will not say anything bad about your rebellion. Your unceasing progress, your reforms, your improvements of every kind, in every way—you may be the best person who has ever lived.