Tell me, Franklin [a microbe of great learning], is the ocean anindividual, an animal, a creature? Yes. He was be sieged with invitations, sought for bythe gayest and the greatest; Jamie Dodge conferred upon him theappropriate title: of The Belle of New York. Like the first Maker of men, Mark Twain created Adam in his ownimage; and his rare Eve is no less the companion with whom, half alifetime before, he had begun the marriage journey. ty, but he wants a postmastership; another will inveigle a lawyer into conversation and then sponge on him for free advice.
He had beendelegated to propose the dinner to Mark Twain, and had found him proppedup in bed, and noticed on the table near him a copy of the Nast book. Clemens wrote of it at considerablelength, and sent the article to Mr. Dwellingmainly among his philosophies and speculations, he observed vaguely, orminutely, what went on about him; but in eit ) Tarkington has the true touch, he said; his work always satisfies me.
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