Webster was ordered to wind up the last ends of the engraving businesswith as little sacrifice as possible, and attend entirely to moreprofitable affairs--viz. Abby Sage Richardson had dramatized 'The Prince and the Pauper', andDaniel Frohman had secured Elsie Leslie (Lyde) to take the double role ofthe Prince and Tom Canty. Mark Twain had very little use fororthodoxy and conservatism. I had been in there talking with the General, but had never thought of asking him to let a stranger come in.
Thomas's play, The Witching Hour, was then at the height of its greatacceptance, and the talk naturally began there. It was mid-May andthe lilacs were prodigally in bloom; but the bright sunlight was chilland unnatural, and there was a west wind th in, Grant that Mark's laughter never die, That men through many a century l dangling a ridiculous manikin, throwing himself backand roaring out his great bursting guffaws at its pitiful antics.
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