He faced about in his chair and said: "Circumstance?
What circumstance?
Ah, I know--I know too well.

So you have heard of it too." [With a sigh.] "Well, no matter--all the world has heard of it.

All the world.

The whole world.

It is a large world, too, for a thing to travel so far in--now isn't it?
Yes, yes--the Greeley correspondence with Erickson has created the saddest and bitterest controversy on both sides of the ocean--and still they keep it up! It makes us famous, but at what a sorrowful sacrifice! I was so sorry when I heard that it had caused that bloody and distressful war over there in Italy.