Clemens felt his deathkeenly, and in a good-by which he wrote for Harper's Weekly he said: His was a nature which invited affection--compelled it, in fact--and met it half-way. color-harmony--and at the other end of the hall, the splendid, glowingbilliard-room, where hung all the pictures in which he took delight. one me found me at a distance from home and unable to discharge that duty and enjoy that privilege. I wish to God you cared less for that particular.
They are much oftener gentle, considerate, even apologetic, butthey are occasionally terse, arbitrary, and profane. (Papa knows that I am writing this biography of him, and he said this for it. s just asmatter-of-fact, compressive and unresponsive, grave and unsmiling as thedevil--a poor audience. The guests were old gray Pacific coasters, he said, whom I knew whenthey were young and not gray.
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