ould regard rheumatism and sore eyes as mere recreation and refreshment after the serious occupations of his day. I burned it & said I would reform. that a man can say to such masterful anger as that, Go, and be obeyed? No, he cannot; that is certainly true. He had behaved like Walter Scott, says Howells, as millions rejoicedto know who had not known how Walter Scott had behaved till they knew itwas like Clemens.
He had said very little when thenews came, though it meant that his immediate fortunes were locked up,and it came near stopping the building activities at Redding. Mark Twain viewed the Oxford pageant from a box with Rudyard Kipling andLord Curzon, and as they sat there some one passed up a folded slip ofpaper, on the outside of which was written, Not true. That is, the French newspapers do. Cocktailswere served and luncheon was announced.
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