He went on dancing his toy chickens, and saying, over and over,'Chicken-fight at your own fireside. Clemens, to have met you--again. Or, if it happened that he wished to showme something in his room, I would hear his rich voice sounding down thestair. After that you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over.
Pessimist--the man who isn't a pessimist is a d---d fool. He was offered fifty cents and even a dollar a word for whatever he mightgive them. It was the 14th of July, 1896, a year to a day since they left Elmira,that they sailed by the steamer Norman for England, arriving atSouthampton the 31st. Inasmuch as the Blaine-Cleveland campaign was essentially a campaign ofscurrility, this touch was loudly applauded.
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