Clemens wrote Twichell: Yours has just this moment arrived-just as I was finishing a note to poor Lady Stanley. Clemens found some compensation, when kept to her room by illness, in thereflection that now she would not hear so much about the damned humanrace. I was allowed to see Livy 5 minutes this morning in honor of the day. around theshaded loop of Beacon Street until dusk fell and the lights began totwinkle among the trees.
Clemens was unable to return by sea. I had stopped thereduring my Western trip of the previous year, and I told him something of its wonders. 33d wedding anniversary. Its funereal cypresses, its crumbling walls and arches, itsclinging ivy and moldering marbles, and a clock that long ago forgot thehours, gave it a mortuary look.
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