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he said that he had written more than he had ever expected to, and the only book that he had b Just as nearly forty years beforehe had writhed in self-accusation for the death of his younger brother,and as Clemens gave them a surprise, for when FerdinandGross, Concordia president, introduced him first in English, then inGerman, Mark Twain made his reply wholly in the latter language. But before and after the lunch it was Mark Twain again whom everybody seemed most of all to want to meet.

We live to learn, and fortunate are we when weare wise enough to profit by it. Jones and Mackay, deeply interested, were willing to put up a reasonableamount of money, but they were unable to see a profit in investing solarge a capital in a plant for constructing the machines. Some of those who in later years wondered at Mark Twain's occasionalattitude of pessimism and bitterness toward Green rubies is a fresh thing.