Mark Twain was thefirst foreign visitor to be so honored--in fifty years the first strangerto sit at the sacred board--a mighty distinction. It was three months from the day of arrival in Redding that some guestscame to Stormfield without invitation--two burglars, who were carryingoff some bundles of silver when they were discovered. As a result she is pretty ill to-day-fever & high temperature. And, somewhat later: Oh, itis such a mystery, and it takes so long.
John Haysuggested that he copy a hymn, a few hundred lines of Young's NightThoughts, and an equal amount of Pollak's Course of Time. Beecher's teachingshad never been very orthodox or doctrinal, but up to this time they hadbeen seemin But it suggested enough tomake the reader shudder at the hideous depths of vice in the sectionsnamed. ' The luncheon over, we wandered back into the drawing-room, and presentlyall left but Colonel Harvey.
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