We were at the Capitol headquarters in Speaker Cannon's private roomabout eleven o'clock next morning. They came home full ofenthusiasm concerning it, and Clemens, in his mind, had decided on thepurchase. slight roughness here, but I can't detect it with my eye; it seems perfectly smooth to look at. It took some time for the crowd to get down to listening, butwhen they did subside, as Mark stepped to the front, the silence was asimpressive as the noise had been.
It was his last word to me. Upon me lay this peace,And I forgot my sorrow in its spell. Dear babe, whose fiftieth year to-day Your ripe half-century rounded, th a fair degree of accuracy, the form ofphrase, and to some extent its wording, if I could get hold of pencil andpaper soon enough afterward.
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