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eature of the weight, too, I am obliged to confess, but I am doing finely, all things considered . The prospect of a lecture from Mark Twain interested the London public. I am not in the habit of disparaging my own gender, but there are times when even the best of us behaves like a woman, as men put it. Darling, you know the children will be pounding on the door if we don't come.

Very good, she mumbled. The greater number of the sketches, asMark Twain himself presently realized and declared, would better havebeen allowed to die. Yet he did not retreat from his moral andintellectual standards, or lose the respect of that shiftless community. When the Christian Sons of Temperance came along with aregalia, and a red sash that carried with it rank and the p