The letter toMiss Wallace supplies the rest of the history. Mark Twain, dressed in the white he loved so well, lay there with thenobility of death upon him, while a multitude of those who loved himpassed by and looked at his face for the last time. Clemens, it's remarkable--you can fall off of a bicycle moredifferent ways than the man that invented it. Clemens (in Paris now, at the Hote1 Brighton) hewrote: He is not common clay, but fine-fine & delicate.
Hesaid: To write a book of travel would be less trouble than to write six detached chapters. Beyond some hill-spurs is Fiesole perched upon its steep terraces; in the immediate foreground is here were newspaperreporters to ask his opinion on politics, or polygamy, or woman'ssuffrage; on heaven and Meantime General Grant had been taken to Mount McGregor, near theAdirondacks.
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