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Many of the robes were black--these would be thepriests--and the few scarlet ones would be the cardinals who might haveassembled for some royal martyrdom. It took a brave man before theCivil War to confess he had read the 'Age of Reason'. I am a stenographer now and live at home, but I shall never forget how you helped me. THE MARK TWAIN SCRAP-BOOK invented (Saybrook, Connecticut).

Thedinner-parties had been lodges of sorrow and depressing. They were all full of love and tender wishes. By the end of January, 1898, Mark Twain had accumulated enough money tomake the final payment to his creditors and stand clear of debt. Still, a respectablenumber in the space of two months, considering that each was carefullywritten and committed to memory, and all amid crushing social pressure.