In one of his later dictations Clemens related an anecdote concerning adinner with Phelps, when he (Clemens) had been invited to meet CountS----, a cabinet minister of long and illustrious descent. AnEnglishman wrote: I want to thank you for writing so pathetic and soprofoundly true a story ; and an American declared it to be the bestshort story ever written. Howells and Aldrich liked well enough to consider it as an amusingprospect, but only Cable was willing to realize it. Mark Twain would naturally sympathize with the Boer--the weaker side, theman defending his home.
e for life, that is to say, headfor head --in one district six hundred and eighty heads having been socollected. He walked to the window and stood looking out on the somber fields. o the imperial heir & to the a young girl Archduchesses present, & aunt to the 3 little Princes), & we shook Name & address are lacking here, & for a purpose: to leave you no chance to make my words a burden to you and a reproach to me, who would lighten your burdens if I could, not add to them.
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