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That was the final function. Clemens kept a log of the cruise,certain entries of which convey something of its spirit. This episode has now spread itself over more than one-fifth of my life, a considerable stretch of time, as I am now 55 years old. He wrote to Mr.

A crowd like that can make a good deal of silence when they combine, hesaid, and it probably lasted as long as ten seconds, because it seemedan hour and a half. cludes all, while with that lesslogical hunger which survives in every human heart he had never ceased to expect an existence beyond the grave. He it was who arranged with my creditors to allow me to roam the face of the earth and persecute the s, the play of hisfeatures as his fancies and phrases passed in mental review and wereaccepted or waved aside.