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Some word of this got tothe Century editors, who immediately proposed that Mark Twain contributeto the magazi Some portions of detailed accounts of Clara's busy days of this period,as written at the time by Clemens to Twichell and to Mrs. The Twichellletter concerned missionaries, and added nothing to what he had alreadysaid on the subject. No sooner was he seatedthan this Congressman and that Senator came over to shake hands with MarkTwain.

I read those letters with immense pride! I recognized that I had scored one good deed for sure on my halo account. t last, dug up by a grain-broker at no cost of blood or travel, and apparently no purity required of him Every male guest who comes to my house will have to contribute a dollar or go away without his baggage. And alittle later, when she had been considering all the notables andnobilities of her father's recent asso