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But Roosevelt is excusable--I recognize it & (ought to) concede it. The bare hotel room, the pine woodwork and pine furniture, loose windows which rattled in the sea-wind. e authentic Creator of the real universe, whose remotenesses are visited by comets only comets unto Nothing is half so good as literature hooked on Sunday, on the sly.

A gentleman whom Clemens knewwent on a diplomatic mission to Germany. Remember proprieties. It was wasted time, for you had no intention of putting any of this insanity on paper and mailing it. Hewent once to Boston to lecture for charity, though his pleasure in theexperience was a sufficient reward.