Clemens took Cable's fortunes in hand, as he had done with many another,invited him to his home, and undertook to open nego uld have one sound, and one soundonly; and he offered as a solution of this an adaptation of shorthand. There don't seem to be any such men now--or any such occasions. Heavy as was the cloud of illness, he could not help pestering Twichell alittle about a recent mishap--a sprained shoulder: I should like to know how & where it happened.
Hewas deep in the third part-the story of Joan's trial and condemnation,and he forgot most other things in his determination to make that one areality. There is no figure for the human being like the ship, he said; no suchfigure for the storm-beaten human drift as the de He alwaysdeclared afterward that he invented all the new bicycle profanity thathas since come into general use. ' We revived him.
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