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CXLVHOWELLS AND CLEMENS WRITE A PLAYBefore Howells went abroad Clemens had written: Now I think th Thistime, however, there was no reluctance, though he had prepared no speech. Rogers's scrutiny, and is heard of no more. There was generally a group to gather around them, and Clemenswas sure of an attentive audience, whether

were planningto publish The Library of Humor, which Howells and Charley Clark hadedited several years before, and occasional conferences were desirable. lso, was engaged ingnawing, torturing, defiling, rotting, and murdering a fellow-creature--he and all the swarming billions of his race. CLXXVIA EUROPEAN SUMMER They landed at Havre and went directly to Paris, where they remainedabout a week. Clemens beganwriting his newspaper letters at Aix, the first of which consists ofobservations at that paradise of rheumatics.