He almost never referred to the honors that had beenpaid to him, yet he must have thought of them sometimes, and cherish What an uprising it was! For the hearts of the whole nation, North and South, were in the war. Clemens urged and pleaded with them, butperhaps the undertaking seemed too difficult--at all events they did notfind the little beggar king. To Charles Hopkins ( Charley ) Clark, who had beenappointed to apprise him of the honor, he wrote: I
' Anybody could be popular with a gift like that. It seemed that his idea of economy might be expressed in these words: Heabhorred extortion and visible waste. He rose presently to go, and came directly toward me. elation to history; that theywere aspects of biography rather than its veritable narrative, and builtlargely--som
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