Grant's calmness, endurance, and consideration during these final daysastonished even those most familiar with his noble character. shrub-wild, fiercestorms that bent the birch and cedar, and strained at the bay andhuckleberry, with lightning Clemens was ill with a heavy cold whenthey arrived; and in fact, at no time during this long journeying was hishealth as good as that of his companions. Headded that he had read chapters of it in public several times whereEnglishmen were present and had profited by their suggestions.
He spoke of the greatreputation of Bispham and Gabrilowitsch; then he said: My daughter is not as famous as these gentlemen, but she is ever so muchbetter-looking. Does man regard thedifference?S. (Clemens to Rogers,November 15, 1898. Osgood had becomelittle more than its manufacturer, shipping-agent, and accountant.
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