When she woke next morning there seemeda strange silence in the house and she grew suspicious. Bothwell, thesuperintendent of the De Vinne company, and two hundred and fiftynumbered copies were printed on hand-made paper, to be graduallydistributed to intimate friends. It was reported at the time, and it hasbeen stated since, that Grant did not write the Memoirs himself, but onlymade notes, which were expanded by others. Professor Phelps's position in Yale College gave this opinion a certainofficial weight; but I think the fact of
He became drowsieras he talked. Clemens that summer wrote, or rather finished, his most pretentious poem. It was just as I had seen it long before, with nothing of its beauty lost, nothing of its charm wanting. Still, indolent eyes were turned toward the distant entrance, and we saw the silken gleam and the lifted sword of a guard of honor plowing through the remote crowds.
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