They arranged to sail on the 6th of June by the French line. The previous-engagement plea, which in forty years has cost you so many twinges, you can lay aside forever; on this side of the grave you will never need it again. Clemens in the introduction says: Its delicious,unconscious ridiculousness and its enchanting naivety are as supreme andunapproachable in their way as Shakespeare's sublimities. He told of his recent trip to his boyhood home, and how he had stood withJohn Briggs on Holliday's Hill and they had pointed out the haunts oftheir youth.
Howells, in turn, proposed a plan which Clemens approved, and they set towork. erquestioned that the wider scheme of the universe was attuned to theimmutable law which contemplates nothing less than absolute harmony. The others needed no preparation, & got none. He lived as he wrote, andhe wrote as he believed.
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