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It took us 3 1/2 hours to get there instead of the regulation 2 hours. But before and after the lunch it was Mark Twain again whom everybody seemed most of all to want to meet. e a fire in my study, & if you came at any time after your dinner that might be most convenient for you you would find me & a welcome. It is an immense advantage to feelthat.

Herbert Putnam, thelibrarian, led us to seats among the literary group, and Clemens,removing his overcoat, stood in that dim room clad as in white armor. He agreed hilariously with me, and was willing to let it stand in proof of his entire dramatic inability. CCXCIIITHE RETURN TO THE INVISIBLEThere would be two days more before Ossip and Clara Gabrilowitsch couldarrive. You all knew what he meant when he referred to it, & of the poor bankrupt firm of C.