The far voyage which was to carrythem for the better part of the year to the under side of the world hadbegun. Clemens had the first claims on the copyrights, though, to tellthe truth, these did not promise much then, for in that hard year thesale of books was small enough. o the little book (for the care that we wrote him, andfor her typographical correction), that maybe worth t His fires were likely to burn themselves out, they raged so fiercely.
Clemens said: Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it. He may have expanded thensomewhat to fill out spaces of his memory, and embroidered them, as washis wont; but t coming rapidlysteeper and dearer as we turned northward: all seemed to gratify him, andwhen he spoke at all it was approvingly. Besides, his other billiard-rooms had been red,and such association may not be lightly disregarded.
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