A bronze tablet recording this fact hadbeen installed, and this was to be the unveiling. They nodded, waved their hands to him, smiled, and lookedtheir fill; but a spell lay upon them, and they did not cheer. He proposed to double the value and interest of ouremployment by letting his dictations continue the form of those Yes, Lord.
The direction of his literary affairs was left to hisdaughter Clara and the writer of this history. But I confined myself to the boy-life out on the Mississippi because that had a peculiar charm for me, and not because I was not familiar with other phases of life. But the fact that he persevered until Huck Finn atlast found complete utterance was of itself a sufficient matter forcongratulation. They waited and waited for the grand crash, butit never came.
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