s: When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened ornot; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter. Perhaps some one can explain this miracle, but I have never been able to do it. I was too busy thinking of how vivid & real was the dream that we had lost her, & how unspeakably blessed it was to find that it was not true & that she was still ours & with us. I had been absent the evening before, and Littleton had beenover.
ToTwichell he wrote:This is the charmingest place we have ever lived in for repose andrestfulness, superb scenery whose edthem, for it had been the greatest national tribute ever paid to aprivate citizen; he must have known that in his heart. Clemens kept a book in which visitors set down their names and the datesof arrival and departure, and when they failed to attend to these mattershe diligently did it himself after they were gone. Hat Island, Helena and here and there a place; but that is about all.
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