Do not give at the outside more than eighty
dollars for the room, even though we be embarrassed by its
smallness. I hope we may have means before long of being more
delicate in our selection; but at present put a leaf to your
patience, for the horizon is black enough to make ink withal.
However, the little dialogue (which has been quite successful) I
have just had with the muses has given me better spirits. I have a
fever of working which is high enough to give me a real fever. I
have shaken the box, and see that it is not empty. But I stood in
need of this evidence, for in my own eyes I had fallen as low as
the Public Funds in 1848. Return here before the money Michel Levy
gave you is exhausted, for I cannot get any more for you. I am
working half the day and half the night. I feel that the great
flood-tide of 'copy' is at hand. My laundress and my pantaloons
have both deserted me. I am obliged to use grape-vine leaves for
my pocket-handkerchief.... There is nothing new here. The dogs are
in good health, but they do not look fat; I am afraid they have
fasted sometimes.
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