Jervis Langdon, the bride's cousin and childhood playmate, acted as bestman, and Clemens, of course, gave the bride away. In that remote solitude there was one important advantage--there was noprocession of human beings with axes to grind, and few curious callers. It seemed that his idea of economy might be expressed in these words: Heabhorred extortion and visible waste. Thematter was discussed a good deal, and it was believed that one hundredthousand words could be sele
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