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There was no prohibition as to billiards, however, or leisurely walking,and we played pretty steadily through those peaceful I never expected to cross the water again, he said; but I would bewilling to journey to Mars for that Oxford degree. The studio was coziness itself. The reporter asked permission toprint the queer document, and it appeared in his Mark Twain interviewnext morning.

That proved a hard, trying winter in the Clemens home, and the burden ofit fell chiefly, indeed almost entirely, upon Clara Clemens. It seems to methat whatever I touch turns to gold. They were the books he had read again and again,and it was seldom that he had not had something to say with each freshreading. The unmailed answers that were to accompany this introduction wereplentiful enough and generally of a fervent sort.