When Mrs.Page read it, she shouted "Now that's it!" For "it" read "truth," and you will have her meaning and mine.

My thanks you may be sure you have, in great and earnest abundance.
You surprise me in two ways--( 1) that you think as well of the magazine as you do.

If it have half the force and earnestness that you say it has, how happy I shall be, for then it will surely bring something to pass.

The other way in which you surprise me is by the flattering things that you say about my conduct of the _Atlantic_.
Alas! it was not what you in your kind way say--no, no.
Of course the _World's Work_ is not yet by any means what I hope to make it.

But it has this incalculable advantage (to me) over every other magazine in existence: it is mine (mine and my partners', i.e., partly mine), and I shall not work to build up a good piece of machinery and then be turned out to graze as an old horse is.
This of course, is selfish and personal--not wholly selfish either, I think.