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Explain to Helen why I don't come. Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially, for eachand every one of us has personally known, loved, and honored the verybest one of them all--his own mother! [Applause. For one thing, Clemens himself was in betterhealth and spirits and able to continue his work. Before 10 all London was in the streets, gone mad with joy.

Clemens used to say afterwardthat he had not been asked to speak, and that it was probably because ofhis supp His idea was that this celestial visitant was notwicked, but only indifferent to good and evil and suffering, having nopersonal knowledge of any of these things. When Paige declared that, wonderful as the machinewas, he could do vastly greater things with it, make it worth many moreand much large o be in the directionof enlargement--a further removal from the human conception, and theproblem of what we call our lives.