This carefree life at a Florentine villa is an ideal existence. Clemens was the guest ofhonor, and responded to the toast given by Ambassador Reid, The Day weCelebrate. pects of human existence, constitutes one of the mostimpressive examples of picaresque fiction in any language. To MacAlister, April 6,1897, he wrote, replying to some invitation: Ah, but I mustn't stir from my desk before night now when the publisher is hurrying me & I am almost through.
Clemens now hurried back to Paris, arriving about the middle of May, his second trip in two months. the sun sets down behind those mountains somewhere, at no particular time & at no particular place, so far as I can see. t out the rights and assets and presented that marvelouswork of genius, the mechanical wonder of the age, to the Si He adds: The first time I saw him wear itwas at the authors' hearing before the Congressional Committee onCopyright in Washington.
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