ghagain, and early in June he was at the Savoy Hotel welcoming Sir HenryIrving back to England after one of his successful American tours. Howells came again, the reporters following andstanding guard at the door below. The report had said that it was probably four hundred billions of milesdistant, and that on this far He prepared a lengthy article on the subject, in dialogue form, making itall very clear and convincing, but for some reason none of the magazineswould take it.
When Hollister sent him the editorial he replied onlywith a word of thanks, and did not, even in jest, encourage that tinyseed of a Presidential boom. ound the horizon is a billowy rim of lofty blue hills, snowed white with innumerable villas. Mark Twain himself, as a cub pilot, came near witnessing the battle hedescribes. He was himself, to me, always a comet rushingthrough space, from mystery to mystery, regardless of sun and systems.
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