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' There was a good deal of complaint, but I refused to budge. In his book hesays: That was the most enjoyable time I have spent in the earth. There were swimming and boating and long walks in thewoods; the worry and noise of the world were far away. CCLXIXFIRST DAYS AT STORMFIELDI went up next afternoon, for I knew how he dreaded loneliness.

This episode has now spread itself over more than one-fifth of my life, a considerable stretch of time, as I am now 55 years old. Mississippi and to the Pacificcoast to see those old friends of Mark Twain's who were so rapidlypassing away. But Clemens was without political ambitions. to be no sequence in a book of that sort, any more than in theaverage reader's mind; and Howells admits that