The fact that proofs of the big bookwere coming steadily may also have interfered with his creative faculty. Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash--that one is the cat. He had neverbeen able to admire Scott, and determined now to try to understand thisauthor's popularity and his standing with the critics; but He seldom took account of the absence ofsuch things.
Howells replied: He likes Mr. Clemens did not guess that the coincidences were not yet complete, thatwithin a month the drama of the tale would be enacted in his own home. I have tried to do good in this world, and it is marvelous in how many different ways I have done good, and it is comfortable to reflect--now, there's Mr. WHICH WAS WHICH? (London and Switzerland) (unfinished).
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