always talking, fondling lovingly and lingeringly thatmost beautiful of all our possessions, the past. In this way I may chance to be helpful to you, & thus profit you perhaps as much as you have desired to profit me. --[Clemens had been without a billiard-table since 1891, the old one havingbeen disposed of on the departure from Hartford. It is difficult to account for it.
' After the applause subsided, heassumed a very grave countenance and commenced his remarks proper withthe following well-known sentence: 'When, in the course of human events,'etc. ly interesting story withwhat Howells in a letter calls a goat's tail ending, perhaps meaningthat it stopped with a The latter was likely to be anecdotal and personal; theformer was more often philosophical and comme He had exhausted the topiclong ago, in one way or another; but it was one of the themes in which henever lost interest.
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