CCXLONDON SOCIAL AFFAIRSAll this time Clemens had been tossing on the London social tide. It was a bleak, dull December day, and as we walked down through theavenues of the dead there was a presence of realized sorrow that seemedexactly suited to such a visit. I shall figure up the rise, as the figures come in, and push up my literary prices accordingly, till I get my literature up to where nobody can afford it but the family. Yet this sarcasticfact does not humble the arrogance nor diminish the know-it-all bulk of asingle verdict-maker of the lot by so much as a shade.
Not in earnest, though, I think. 'As I said, Mr. This is by far and away the most marvelous invention ever contrived by man. Yet now in theretrospect, it seems hardly to have been the retreat for an invalid.
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