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Then at the end he paid a tribute to the companion of hishome, who could not be there to share his evening's triumph. General Grant had noenemies, political or sectional, in those last days. Somewhere before we have stated that no one better thanMark Twain knew the value of a pause. Theydrove out to the Villa Viviani in the afternoon and found everything inreadiness for their reception, even to the dinner, which was prepared andon the table.

When Doubleday returned from Boston a few days later the agent called onhim and complained that he couldn't find Mark Twain anywhere. to convey his devotion to that quaint record which,perhaps next to Suetonius, was the book he read and quoted most. It surely seemed to me that I had reached that summit, that I had reached my limit, and that there was no higher lift devisable for me. Clemens and Clara, as often as they had heard him, generally wentwhen the hour of entertainment came