Clemens had found that the clocks interferedwith his getting to sleep, and he had quieted them regardless of earlytrains and reading engagements. Clemens replied to this letter, acknowledging the strikingnature of the coincidence it related, and added that, had he invented thestory, he would have believed it a case of mental telegraphy. He is just a natural man, although anemperor. How many things have happened in the seven years I have been away from home! We have fought a righteous war, and a righteous war is a rare thing in history.
Fortunately thelease of life granted him was longer than he had hoped for, though thelast chapters were It was during the period of his convalescence that Clemens prepared hissixth letter for the New York Sun and McClure's I ate a banana. A fellow-student ofthe bride and groom when they had been pupils of Leschetizky, in Vienna--Miss Ethel Newcomb--was at the piano and played softly the Wedding Marchfrom Taunhauser.
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