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d, for theAmerican public is accustomed to suffering almost any sort of impositionto avoid trouble and publicity. Augustine Birrell made the speech of introduction, closing with thisparagraph: Mark Twain is a man whom Englishmen and Americans do well to honor. With pleasure--where is she? At your elbow. Roses overflow the retaining-walls, & the battered & mossy stone urn on the gate-posts, in pink & yellow cataracts exactly as they do on the drop-curtains in the theaters.

I will torment the people if I want to. But I work right along, like a poor person. It is perfectly clear and legible. following again the bannerof the Maid of Orleans, marshaling her twilight armies across hisillumined page.