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word, I do not see what is to hinder you to come whenever you can
resolve upon it. The adventure is perfectly promising: an
adventure familiar to you withal; for Lecturing is with us
fundamentally just what it is with you: Much prurient curiosity,
with some ingenuous love of wisdom, an element of real reverence
for the same: everywhere a perfect openness to any man speaking
in any measure things manful. Come, therefore; gird yourself
together, and come. With little or no peradventure, you will
realize what your modest hope is, and more;--and I, for my share
of it, shall see you once again under this Sun! O Heavens, there
_might_ be some good in that! Nay, if you will travel like a
private quiet person, who knows but I, the most unlocomotive of
mortals, might be able to escort you up and down a little; to
look at many a thing along with you, and even to open my long-
closed heart and speak about the same?--There is a spare-room
always in this House for you,--in this heart, in these two
hearts, the like: bid me hope in this enterprise, in all manner
of ways where I can; and on the whole, get it rightly put
together, and embark on it, and arrive!
The good Miss Fuller has painted us all _en beau,_ and your
smiling imagination has added new colors.
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