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Then, ofcourse, it happened, as it must sooner or later at a busy time, that hewas given a small news assignment. All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly into commonplaces contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle. I said that Carlyle somehow reminded me of a fervid stump-speaker who pounded his fists and went at his audience fiercely, determined to convince them. But perhaps his most impressive appearance was at the dedication of thegreat City College (May 14, 1908), where President John Finle

And again on the 28th: It seems to me that things couldn't well be going better at Chicago than they are. I wish I did. And I knew he meant that he was ill of the great loneliness that had cometo him that day in Florence, and would never pass away. CCVIIIMARK TWAIN AND THE WARSEnglish troubles in South Africa came to a head that autumn.