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Clemens away from home in the winter season. We made occasional business trips to New York, and during oneof them visited the Museum of Natural Howells said: A statement like that arouses my basest passions. Those are for me, he said, his face full of contentment.

But the humiliation is out of it now, and a bit of itshumor may be preserved. Clemens, coming to say good night, saw a little group about her bed,Clara and Jean standing as if dazed. He sent a daily postal card complaining of the windows, furnace,the range, the water-whatever he thought might lend interest toDoubleday's life. He paid full tribute to the performance, also to the Wagner devotion,confessing its genuineness.