With her farm management, her housekeeping, hersecretary work, and her Christmas preparations, it seemed to me that shehad her hands overfull. Yet Clemens seems never to have been openly violent with Paige. It required effortfor him to be entirely calm in his business correspondence. The young newspaper man had inventedthe whole idea to get a story out of Mark Twain.
Moreover, these features, and even the Grant book itself, seemed likelyto dwindle in importance by the side of The Life of Pope Leo XIII. There was constantvisiting back and forth the full length of the two coaches. Truth is stranger than fiction--to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. For a full ten days we were alone in the big house with the servants.
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