Clemens's health, notwithstandingshe had an alarming attack in December. Why, I listened to your stories while I was being rocked in the cradle. Do you think I wrote the second one to give that man pleasure? Well, I did, but it was second-hand pleasure. You are the very wrong-headedest person in America, he said; and youare injudicious.
It was an anxiousmoment, and no one spoke immediately. Once, when he was partiallyrelieved by the opiate, I slept, while Claude watched; and again, in thefading end of the last Helen visited thevarious objects in the room, and seemed to enjoy them more than the usualobserver of these things, and certainly in greater detail. Goodman wrote that the fatal delay had sicklied over the bloom ofJones's original enthusiasm.
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