...certain plans, which have not yet been accomplished. I have been interrupted, balked, kicked and cuffed by fortune, till I am more than half disgusted with...to take up the broken thread where I left it, and carry it forward as before." " The moral of that is, I suppose, that you won't go to Mexico." " Precisely."...

...certain plans which have not yet been accomplished. I have been interrupted, balked, kicked and cuffed by fortune, till I am more than half disgusted with...to take up the broken thread where I left it, and carry it forward as before" (page 281). The first fruit of that strenuous resolve was Pioneers of France...