He reviews Huck sympathetically in detail, and closes: There are defects of taste, or passages that t Been taken for Mommsen twice. Then I was summoned,and I remember ascending the stairs, wondering why I had come on sofutile an errand, and trying to think of an excuse to offer for havingcome at all. e said: Clara stood a daily watch of three or four hours, and hers was a hard office indeed.
The publishing business hadmanaged to weather along. In the cab going home I mentioned the success of his speech, how well ithad been received. The fancy of this appealed to him, and thereporter was allowed to come up. The illusion of Huck as narrator fails the least bit here and there; the four dialects are not always maintained; the occasional touch of broadburlesque detracts from the tale's reality.
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