La vita e le lettere di Washington Irving . vizi e affectationsin quale giovane America è troppo apt di indulgere in Europa e che,mentre tu dare libero ambito per la naturale tendenza al galleggiamento di spirito, voi willmaintain che frank, Manly, modesto semplicità di condotta che shouldcharacterize American gentleman. Vorrei poter scrivere è più interessante una lettera; ma questo, tali comesi, è scrawled con qualche difficoltà, perché io sono appena recuperato da un accoppiamento ofillness, e sono poco dotato per l'esercizio della penna. Dio benedica voi, miei cari Irving e portarvi a casa da noi con amind memorizzati con profitab

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The life and letters of Washington Irving . vices, and affectationsin which Young America is too apt to indulge in Europe, and that, while you give free scope to your natural buoyancy of spirit, you willmaintain that frank, manly, modest simplicity of conduct that shouldcharacterize the American gentleman. I wish I could write you a more interesting letter; but this, such asit is, is scrawled with some difficulty, for I am just recovered from a fit ofillness, and am little fitted for the exercise of the pen. God bless you, my dear Irving, and bring you home to us with amind stored with profitable and delightful recollections, manners improvedand refined by travel, and a heart unspotted by the world. Your affectionate uncle, Washington Irving. CHAPTER XXIV. Continuing Indisposition.—Sir Walter Scott.—Bull-fights.—Dread of theNight.—Spasmodic Affection.—Letter from Prescott.— Volume V. ofLife of Washington Going to Press.— Wilkie.—Holmes.—PrescottsDeath, —Restless Nights.—Anxiety to Sleep.—His Last Birthday.. ?*)CTOBER 31, 1858; at Sunny side.—?^ Mr. Irving still troubled with hisharassing cough. To an enquiry ofone of his nieces how he had restedthe night before, he repHes : So, so; I am apt to be rather fatigued, my dear, by my nights rest Afterbreakfast, he was turning over, inthe library, the leaves of Dungli-sons Medical Dictionary, whichhad been sent him by the publisherthe day before, A very good bookto have ; but what an array of mal-adies for this poor machine of oursto be subject to! One almostwonders, as he thinks of them, thatany should ever grow old.He afterward got speaking of Sir Walter Scott. Oh ! hewas a master spirit—as glorious in his conversation as in his writ-ings. Jeffrey was delightful, and had eloquent runs in conversa-tion ; but there was a consciousness of talent with it. Scott hadnothing of that. He spoke from the fulness of his mind, pouringout an incessant flow of anecdote, story, etc., with dashes ofhumor, and the

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• bookyear1883