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I have done a great deal more than that with your books, so perhaps you owe me some thing--say ten pages. long; their first return to the island since the trip when they hadpromised to come back so soon-nearly thirty years before. When I put on black it reminds meof my funerals. I suppose you will put in plenty of pegs in this prefatory part.

Then, next morning, he was seized withthe notion of writing a series of letters to such friends as Howells,Twichell, and Rogers--letters not to be mailed, but to be laid away forsome future public. It was with such idle tales and talk-play that the afternoon passed. Clemens, remembering thatearlier period of sorrow, was depressed with forebodings. This is the first time that this secret has been revealed.