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I feel like saying, Let me take you by thehand, sir; let me embrace you; I have not heard that pun for weeks. Webster engaged Kemble and put themanuscript in his hands. Clemens was ready to do that or to fall in with any planthat would bring him across the water and settle him somewherepermanently. I suppose I thought this would eliminate an elementof danger.

Necessarily hemust have or he couldn't have unbent to me as he did. My opinion is that thewater will be four feet deep in Canal Street before the first of nextJune. Some further memoranda made at this time have that intimate interestwhich gives reality and charm. And again: Everybody in the world who wants something--0something of no interest tome--writes to me to get it.