The bare mention of the Tennessee land sent him off intofigures that ended with the purchase of estates in England adjoiningthose of That's better. We had been talking since midnight over the duel that was coming. A clerk, with evident pride, rattled off the names: Lieutenant-General Sherman, Henry Ward Beecher, and Mask Twain; alsoprobably General Banks.
I am in no mood for argument or explanation, David. The papers of the Coast took it up, and within a period to bemeasured by weeks he was no longer Sam or Clemens or that brightchap on the Enterprise, but Mark -- Mark Twain. It has sheltered a long line ofactor folk and their friends since then, earning thereby reverence,gratitude, and immortal memory. Across the ocean the book had found no less favor, and was beingtranslated into many and strange tongues.
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