of a reportthat he had taken Buckenham Hall, Norwich, for a year, and was to becomean English resident. One of these letters, written to George Standring, a Londonprinter and publisher, also an author, will serve as an example. Without going further it is proper to say here that the pictures in thefirst edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court justifiedthe author's faith in the artist of his selection. Clemens referred to themusical contingent as those hand-organ men who ought to have a bill oftheir own.
He said that if I would approve his arrangements he would arrange. he thought the vote of the people would always, or at least for a long period, prevent imperialism. How darkly he painted it! One saw the jester, who for forty years hadbeen making the world laugh, performing always before a background oftragedy. Back in the Speaker's room, at last, he began laying out the campaign,which would begin next day.
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