Twichell wrote:I want you to understand, old fellow, that it will be in its intentionthe highest public compliment, and emphatically This reminded me of something: thirty years ago, in Hartford, the billiard-room was my study, & I wrote my letters there the first thing every morning. Clemens, for on that day her mother's gentle andbeautiful soul went out from among them. I have a curious pain in my breast.
Presently Mrs. Clemens agreed to this on the condition that he be permitted to leave arecord of the matter for his children, so tha If only Tom Sawyer could have seen him then! If only Olivia Clemenscould have sat among those who gave him welcome! But life is not likethat. It was a properresidence for a venerable author and a sage, and with the handsomeHartford furnishings distributed through it, made a distinctly suitablesetting for Mark Twain.
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