Certainly his home life was never happier. It consisted in turningout twelve pool-balls on the table with one cue ball, and asking hisguest how many caroms he thought he could make with all those twelveballs to play on. The little bust of Grant which Gerhardt worked on that day was widelyreproduced in terra-cotta, and is still regarded by many as the mostnearly correct likeness of Grant. Sometimes there were long pauses when he was wandering indistant valleys of thought and did not speak at all.
He rallied and renewed his task; feeblyat first, but more perseveringly as each day seemed to bring a littleadded strength, or perhaps it was only resolution. e house, if there is any such thing as a south end to a house, whose orientation cannot be determin Mark Twain was the guest of honor on this occasion, and was seated at theEmperor's right hand. LETTERS FROM THE EARTH (unfinished).
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