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Just look what he says about the number of soldiers. He steps into his study at the hour established by the habit of months--& he gets that little shock. gross-royalty or the seventy percent. We stopped the game for a while to discuss it, but we could devise nomaterial explanation.

He had experimented with each of theseideas in no less than three forms, and there was fine writing Just what kindledMark Twain's interest in the poetry of Robert Browning is not remembered,but very likely his earlier associations with the poet had something todo with it. Fields, getting uneasy, rose, buthe wouldn't go--& so we rattled ahead the same as ever. We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining int