Piff! from a cob-pipe (I always said that a Missouri meerschaum was the best smoking in the world), and behold! Mark Tw He was like a storm-beatenship that had drifted at last into a serene South Sea haven. Susy's discovery that the secret of her biography was known is shown bythe next entry, and the touch of severity in it was p CLIVTHE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL GRANTThe success of Huck Finn, though sufficiently important in itself,prepared the way for a publishing venture by the side of which itdwindled to small proportions.
We bothregretted this, but the Duke said that these people were nothing to us,and deserved extinction anyway for being so poor-spirited as to servesuch a Family. Howells, writing at a later time, quitenaturally included it among the several manuscripts which Clemens readaloud to him. From every remote corner of theglobe the cables of condolence swept in; every printed sheet inChristendom was filled with lavish tribute; pulpits forgot his heresiesand paid him honor. You have a singularly fine & aristocratic disrespect for homely & unpretending English.
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