Once following the dictation, when I came tothe billiard-room he was shooting the balls about the table, apparentlymuch depressed. As already mentioned, Joan had been early recognized as Mark Twain'swork, and it was now formally acknowledged as such on the title-page. This was in the great Hall of the Palace,where durbars are held, at Bombay. To-night it will be 5 weeks.
He is willing to read an address on occasion, but he hasowned that the prospect of talking without his notes terrifies him. But in March I noticed that hegenerally dictated his letters, and once when he sent some smallphotographs I thought he looked thinner and older. Birrell said in that connection. Could a man live on a world so small as that? I asked.
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