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I told of something I had read not long before. ' Now I am not enjoying this sparkling solitude and distinction. Howdoes a soul like that stay in a carcass without getting mixed with thesecretions and sweated out through the po MARK TWAIN--DEAR SIR,--You had better go.

Grant's calmness, endurance, and consideration during these final daysastonished even those most familiar with his noble character. s, the play of hisfeatures as his fancies and phrases passed in mental review and wereaccepted or waved aside. He opened with an apology, bysaying that he had partly succeeded in obtaining a band, but at the lastmoment the party engaged backed out. When I first knew you, Honored Sir, one of us was hardly even respected.