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He was to sail next day, and that night, at Mr. Clemens, I said. We had tea at half past six for a dozen--the Hawthornes, Jeannette Gilder, and her niece, etc. At this pointit passed Pudd'nhead Wilson, the Yankee, The Gilded Age, Life on theMississippi, overtook the Tramp Abroad, and more than doubled TheAmerican Claimant.

That's closed in, isn't it, for thewinter? Plenty of sunlight--just the place for a young elephant. I spent most of each day with him, merely sitting by the bed and readingwhile he himself read or dozed. The dinner with Emperor William II. I described him, and repeated some of his mumblings.