He had seena good many elephant-trainers at Bridgeport, and he thought this one hada doubtful look. I believe that in the next chapter my notion of the Boer was rightly conceived. It is the great discovery of the age, he said, quite seriously. The collapse of the great hope meant to the Clemens household thattheir struggle with debt was to continue, that their economies were tobecome more rigid.
He did it just to hear himself talk and to air his small grandeur. The thieves, also their pursuers, had boarded the train there. There were too many business complications; also the health ofClemens's mother had become very feeble. It was a doubledisappointment; not only were the lectures lost, but Clemens had longlooked forward to revisiting the islands he had so loved in the days ofhis youth.
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