They came home full ofenthusiasm concerning it, and Clemens, in his mind, had decided on thepurchase. They would returnto America to lay Mrs. Kleinburg,is a gentleman, too, yet is not a Clemens--that is to say, he is not anass. He realized that he was tired and that the strain upon himmade any other sort of work out of the question.
By the time a settlement of this claim had been reached the play had runits course, and it was not revived in that form. In the talks which we usually had, when the dictations were ended andMiss Hobby had gone, I gathered much that was of still greater value. It required ten days to float to Arles. He became again the guest of honor at the Lotos Club, which had dined himso lavishly seven years before, just previous to his financial collapse.
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