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He remembered afterward that Dickens wore a black velvet coat with afiery red flower in his buttonhole, and that he read the storm scene fromCopperfield--the death of James Steerforth. Clemens could not look at the scenery any more forwatching his fellow-passenger, waiting with a fascinated interest for theparagraph that would break up that iron-clad solemnity. He asks us to come at once. It is only worth remembering ashis metropolitan beginning.

I will of course pursue inquiries here in Cairo, but don't get your hopes up. It would make my reputation had it not already been made. It was during one of these Boston sojourns that he first met William DeanHowells, his future friend and literary counselor. What is the grandest thing in Paradise Lost --the Arch-Fiend's terrible energy! What was the greatest feature in Napoleon's charact