...widowed mother : What do you think of my becoming an author (he asks her) and relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting...poor devils, and, therefore, Satan may take them. The vicissitudes of his younger days were neither few nor pleasant. He was barely able to pay his way...

...without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the .illegibility of my handwriting...reviewers as equal to the proudest productions of scribbling John Bull's! But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. I am...

...live without a profusion ! What do you think of my becoming an author an1l relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting...reviewers as equal to the proudest productions of scribbling John Bulls ! But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. 1 atn...

...upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my hand is very author-like. How proud you would be to see my works praised by the reviewers, as equal...in the same predicament as the honest gentleman in ' lispriella's Letters,' — " ' I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, A-musing in my mind what...

...without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull !" In watching the throngs of young and old in the streets, or crowding the trains and ferryboats,...

...think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen? Indeed, I think the illigibility of my handwriting is very author-like. How proud you...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull !" In watching the throngs of young and old in the streets, or crowding the trains and ferryboats,...

...his mother in Maine : " What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like. How proud you would be to see my books praised by the reviewers as equal to the proudest productions of the scribbling...

...support upon my pen? How proud you would feel to see my works praised HAWTHOKNK'S HOMK—OLD MANSK. by the reviewers as equal to the proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull." So the boy had visions of the future, feeling the power growing within him, that would place him in...

...without a profession! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen T Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like. How proud you would be to see my works praised by the reviewers, as equal to the proudest productions of the scribbling...

...support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like . . . But authors are always poor devils and therefore Satan may take them." Best of all are the loveletters for the three or four years of his engagement while Sophia Peabody...