Clemens rather enjoyed portrait-sittings. Once, however, when his sympathy was awakened by the victimof a frightful trolley and train collision in Newark, New Jersey, hewrote a letter which promptly found its way into print. Moberly Bell's. Writers,diplomats, financiers, municipal officials, everybody in Vienna that wasworth while, was there.
What masses of virgin truth never touched in print before!And when he had finished it: Last night I read your last chapter. When the last sentence was spoken the applause camelike an explosion. When I heard the horrible news 4 hours ago, be d---d if I didn't come near screaming. She will pay you $20 a month (she wouldn't pay a cent more in heaven; she is obstinate on this point), a
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