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ou have grown more and more dear from the first ofthose anniversaries, and I do not doubt that this precious progressionwill continue on to the end. via Clemens also had become something morethan the half-timid, inexperienced girl he had first known. This was in 1821. I stopped in the Herald office, as I came through New York, to see the boys on the staff, and young James Gordon Bennett asked me to wri

Jim detested the noise, and perhaps wasgallant enough to think it would disturb the party. Once I remember seeing him come into his drawing-room at Hartford in apair of white cowskin slippers with the hair out, and do a crippledcolored uncle, to the joy of all beholders. His body relaxed and his features lost their ferocity. He closes at last with a bit of pleasantry for his mother.