t that heever clung to a single silver ten-cent piece, as he tells us, andbecame the familiar of mendicancy, was It would solidify MarkTwain's reputation on the Atlantic coast, he declared, insisting that thelargest house in New York, Cooper Union, should be taken. Sam Clemens spentsome of his precious money to buy the tramp a box of Lucifer matches--abrand new invention then, scarce and high. I went immediately to Emerson.
I feel like walking on the roofs. He felt that it was his own conscience thatmade these things torture him. Clemens, delicate and greatly worn withthe anxiety and strain of watching, the blow was a crushing one. Time would bring revenge--a tragic revenge and at afearful cost; but he could not guess that, and he put in his spare timeplanning punishments of his own.
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