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 confesses that this is a dreadful position; one that makes a man feellike one of those Liberal politicians who are always s It failed yesterday--& the day before & the day before that. They were in Sydney next morning, September 16, 1895, and landed in apouring rain, the breaking up of a fierce drought.
ying sail! --You struck your topsails then, and made Obeisance--now your manners fail. >From the note-book: Here in the wastes of the Indian Ocean just under the equator the sea is blue, the motion gentl In the night Dr. ople--an indifferent & unposted & disheartening audience--& up at the far end of the room sat the jubilees in a row.
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