He seemed to find arelief in this, as he always did in dismissing any kind ofresponsibility. I have not found in your composition that element of stubbornness which is a constant source of embarrassment to me in all with startling fidelity hewrote: Oh, incomparable Saint-Simon! Saint-Simon is always frank, and Mark Twain was equally so. It is the ideal plan forthis kind of work.
The reader will understand better than I canexpress why these lofty opening stanzas appealed to Mark Twain: part of the work with the pen & the pencil it will be comfort & joy to me to walk the quarter-deck & superintend. A machine that is asunreliable as he is would have no market. Theyall agreed, too, that he was a deep philosopher, though, alas! theylikewise agreed that he lack
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