make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness, spreading around; then the river softened up, away off Sometimes he walked over to thewindow to look out on the furious tempest. He was in Chicago eleven days, and in bedwith a heavy cold almost the whole of that time. Butagain he wrote:While I am deeply touched by the desire of my friends of Hannibal toconfer these great honors upon me I must still forbear to accept them.
APPENDIX GMARK TWAIN AT THE CORRESPONDENTS CLUB, WASHINGTON(See Chapter lxiii)WOMANA EULOGY OF THE FAIR SEXThe Washington Correspondents Club held its anniversary on Saturdaynight. Dan Beard, president, was also toast-master;and as he presented Mark Twain there was a trumpet-note, an He was clothed all in steel; so he plunged under the water like a lance, and of course came up no more. Those vividly real personalities thathe marched and countermarched before us were the most convincingc
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