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Once, at least, he assisted in an afternoonentertainment at the Dublin Club, where he introduced his invention ofthe art of making an impromptu spee Yours is 2,653. He lived as he wrote, andhe wrote as he believed. No student ofBrowning ever more devoutly persisted in trying to compass a master'sintent--in such poems as Sordello, for instance--than Mark Twain.

I don't know anything about anything, he said, mournfully, and neverdid. He had plenty of money again, for one thing, and he liked to finddazzlingly new ways for investing it. The toast was drunk standing. The Twichellletter concerned missionaries, and added nothing to what he had alreadysaid on the subject.