Notwithstanding the fact that he was working at Huck with enthusiasm, heseems to have been in no hurry to revise it for publication, either as aserial or as a book. So far from having waned, ithad surged to a higher point than ever before. The Court Gazette of a German paper can be covered with a playing- card. CCXIIIMARK TWAIN--GENERAL SPOKESMANClemens did not confine his speeches altogether to matters of reform.
It was a season that closed sadly. But hewas not yet ready to surrender. Clemens could criticize his own nation freely enough, but he would hardlybe patient under the strictures of a Frenchman, especially upon Americanwomen. He might as well have come over here in his shirt-tail.
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