All through those finely printed volumes are his commentaries, sometimesno more than a word, sometimes a filled, closely written margin. That Sunday afternoon, with John Briggs, he walked over Holliday's Hill--the Cardiff Hill of Tom Sawyer. The housemaid, forbidden the place for five months, has been there & tidied it up & scoured it clean & made it repellent & awful. We have allowed the commerce of theriver to die, but it was to accommodate the railroads, and we must begrateful.
In the loggia stood the half-trimmed Christmas tree, and all about laythe packages of gifts, and in Jean's room, on the chairs and upon herdesk, were piled other packages. company, and told them how, on the day of his arrival, he had beenshocked to read on a great placard, Mark Twain Arrives: Ascot CupStolen. He came back and began to comment rather critically on some recentperformance of Roosevelt's, which had stirred up a good deal of newspaperamusem The Princess Metternich, and Madame deLaschowska, of Poland, were among those who came, and there were Nansenand his wife, and Campbell-Bannerman, who was afterward British Premier.
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