Howells and Clemens agreed to givehim the play, and they hired the old Lyceum Theater for a week, at sevenhundred dollars, for its trial presentation. It was themessage of a seer--the prophecy of a sage who sees with the clairvoyanceof knowledge and human understanding. It required a man withthe fullest legal equipment to have written them. Yet at this very moment a factor was coming into his life, a humanelement, a man to whom in his old age Mark Twain owed more than to anyother of his myriad of friends.
I did hate to burden his good heart & overworked head, but he took hold with avidity & said it was no burden to work for his friends, but a pleasure. Clemens wrote to her sister:As I was starting down the stairs for my breakfast this morning Mr. I hear a voice that sings, Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! ' Says I, 'I can't afford it, Mr. The second interest requiring attention was that other old one--themachine.
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