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But this funeral march--how sad & long it is! Two days more will end the second stage of it. Whereupon Howells promptly wrote him that he would help him out with theHuck Finn proofs for the pleasure of reading the story. When they assessed me at $75,000 a fortnight ago I went out and tried to borrow the money and couldn't. It was a brief two days as time is measured; butas time is lived it has taken its place among those unmeasured periods bythe side of which even years do not count.

Farther along in our journey he handed me the paper again, pointing tothese lines of Kipling: They mightchoose unwisely, but the party support must be maintained. He didthis later, and eventually included the entire story, with comments, inone of his own volumes. If you must talk let the weather alone.