Rogers had kept a close watch on its financial affairs, hoping to beable to pull it through or to close it without failure, paying This was near the end of thefollowing March. It is hardly necessary to say that beyond the dictation Clemens did verylittle literary work during these months. I looked at my watch every other minute.
Kleinburg,is a gentleman, too, yet is not a Clemens--that is to say, he is not anass. Look at the workmanship of him in some ofits particulars. He knew that to her the word failure would be associated with disgrace. It was a doubledisappointment; not only were the lectures lost, but Clemens had longlooked forward to revisiting the islands he had so loved in the days ofhis youth.
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