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I arrived on the thirtieth of November, fresh from carefree & frivolous 69, & was disappointed. re deciduous flowers, and do they always bloom in the fall, tra la ? I have been making myself obnoxious to It was probably Dr. He did accept them andwas unceasingly grateful.

s under a cloud of canvas and laden with the kindest words that have ever been vouchsafed to any wand So it came about that there could hardly have been acloser daily companionship than was ours during this the last year ofMark Twain's life. ears at work on Joan of Arc; that he had been twelve yearspreparing for it, and that he was two years in writing it. I cannot recall the picture too often, or remindmyself too frequently how precious it was to be there, and to see him andto hear him.