It was like him to be fond of the child, and he had promised tosend a carriage for her. The Roe was notlicensed to carry passengers, but she always had a dozen family guests aboard, and there was a big boiler-deck for dancing and moonlightfrolics, also a piano in the cabin. The young man was now very genuinely alarmed. Luck was with him; the soft sounds of pursuit faded, and finally he emerged into a plaza so small it didn't even have a name.
But then we were so hard up. He sighed regretfully and blew out a wobbly smoke ring. When Clemens had been in Washington a week we find him writing: DEAR FOLKS, Tired and sleepy--been in Congress all day and making newspaper acquaintances. A portion of a letter to his sister Pamela has been preserved and isgiven here not only for what it contains, but as the earliest existingspecimen of his composition.
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