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His delicacy andthoughtfulness were unfailing; his original ways of doing things alwaysamused and interested the patient. Another memory of that dinner is linked to a demand that Aldrich made ofClemens that night, for his photograph. My orders had less effect than Ramses's appeal. But this is a digression and somewhatpremature.

Emerson fingered the cleft in his chin. He isn't going anywhere. Emerson followed me. To Howells, on his return, Clemens wrote his acknowledgments, and added: Mrs.