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Oliver Wendell Holmes never goes out (he is in his 84th year), but hecame out this time--said he wanted to have a time once more with me. In the papers of Republican France from six to sixteen times as much. Roses overflow the retaining-walls, & the battered & mossy stone urn on the gate-posts, in pink & yellow cataracts exactly as they do on the drop-curtains in the theaters. He nursed and petted it, as it nursed and petted andhonored him.