Claude, thebutler, fired a pistol after them to hasten their departure, and Clemens,wakened by the shots, thought the family was opening champagne and wentto sleep again. CCXCVIPOSTSCRIPTEvery life is a drama--a play in all its particulars; comedy, farce,tragedy--all the elements are there. Itwas not a time for small dealings, and Webster rose to the occasion. ght always ready to redress wrong, would seem to have been the lastperson to wish to laugh it out of romance.
Clemens in the introduction says: Its delicious,unconscious ridiculousness and its enchanting naivety are as supreme andunapproachable in their way as Shakespeare's sublimities. I would respectfully request a personal interview, and if you will appoint some day and hour most inconvenient to you I will call at your baronial hall. in hishonor, Clemens suggested a bohemian assembly over beer and sandwiches insome snug place, with Howells, Henry Rogers, Twichell, Dr. All the speakers didwell that night, and they included some of the country's foremost inoratory: Chauncey Depew, St.
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