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Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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A CHAPTER IN THE LIFE OF

ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

BY STEPHEN McKENNA

NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1922

Copyright, 1922, By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

Printed in U.S.A.

VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY Binghamton and New York

To ALFRED SUTRO

I dedicate to you this slight tribute to the memory of our friend. You were the luckier, in knowing him the longer. I shall be more than content if you find, in reading this book, as I found in reading his letters again, that he has returned to us even for a moment and that a whim of his language or an echo of his laughter has recreated the triple alliance which he founded.

I trust also you may be long without finding out the devil that there is in a bereavement. After love it is the one great surprise that life preserves for us. Now I don’t think I can be astonished any more.

Robert Louis Stevenson: Letters.