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In a subsequentdictation he said: I am glad I have lived to see that half-hour--that astonishing half- hour. She is pretty desolate now after Jean's emancipation--the only kindness that God ever did that poor, unoffending child in all her hard life. They read to a packed house, andwhen the audience was gone and the returns had been counted an equaldivision of the profits was handed to each of the authors. It was probably Dr.

It was not intentional--it was a good while before I found it out, so I am sending you her picture to use --& to reproduce with photographic exactness the unsurpassable expression & all. was in charge of the copy and proceeded to editMark Twain's manuscript; to alter its phrasing to conform to his ownideas of the Queen's English. If a pauper owes me a dollar and I catch him unprotected andmake him pay me fourteen dollars thirteen of it is theft and extortion. But he could not peg away.