Clemens, as was his habit, had taken a work-room in a separate cottage in the house of a friend and neighbor, a fisherman and a boatma The first check of two hundredthousand dollars, drawn February 27, 1886, remains the largest singleroyalty check in history. All right, he said, I can stand more of my own talk than any one Iever knew. His many speecheson municipal and national abuses he felt were more or less ephemeral.
He asked: Have you heard the news about San Francisco? I said I had heard a rumor of an earthquake; and had seen an extra withbig scare-heads; but I supposed the matter was exaggerated. Clemens and Clara werewilling to go night after night and hear that tale time and again, forits effect on each new, audience. the essential difference between a lifelong democratand any other kind of lifelong slave? Is it less humiliating to (See Chapters ccxxxiv to ccxxxvii; also Appendix V.
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