him in good part, nor yet to a time when he did not pay them back with usury when his turn came. I had been in there talking with the General, but had never thought of asking him to let a stranger come in. On the Fourth of July (1900) Clemens dined with the Lord Chief-Justice,and later attended an American banquet at the Hotel Cecil. I think he talked very little of thenew home which he was so soon to see.
Hespoke of Joe Goodman and the Gillis families, and pictured conditions inthe perishing city. He will temper the wind to the shorn lamb & I will send some of the things back anyway if there is some that won't keep. It was a remarkably prompt andshrewd piece of work. She drove and I superintended.
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