Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 676
one to go tofor sane, pointed views. Now he is gone,the trenchant pen is still. But his joy-ous spirit is still with us. Mark Twainssmile will live forever. His laughter iseternal. The road ahead of that boy on the riverbank was a hard one. Before MarkTwain, a distinguished,white-haired man, and… … HE could not know, standing there in his barefeet and his rough clothes, with his littleschooling, that kings would do him honorwhen he died, and that all men who read wouldmourn a friend. He could not dream that one day his work wouldstand in Chinese, in Russian, in many languages hecould not read…
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