Meantime, Clemens, with one of his sudden impulses, had conceived thenotion of spending the winter in Egypt, on the Nile. Howells says: He had grown so weary of change, and so indifferent to it, that he waswithout interest. lls that on oneoccasion he delivered an address to a German and English audience on the Awful German Tongue. Then, in the canvas chair which we hadbrought, Claude and I carried him up-stairs to his room and delivered himto the physicians, and to the comforts and blessed air of home.
-composition of the school-girl, but I have ceased from employing it since I got my puberty, & must solemnly object to fathering it here. Emerson's eye he judged he had 'em. He had observed the methods of Bliss and Osgood,and had drawn his conclusions. For 6 days now my story in the Christmas Harper's Was it Heaven? or Hell? --has been enacted in this household.
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