I did not realize then the fullness of his love for theatrical effect. But Clemens, badly as he was beginning to need the money, put thistemptation behind him. Governor Francis spoke a few words, to the effect that they had gatheredhere to unveil a tablet to an American poet, and that it was fitting thatMark Twain should do this. amazingly brief time executed a newbust even better than the first, an excellent piece of modeling and afine likeness.
One may pettily pick a flaw here and there in the tale'sconstruction if so minded, but the moral character of Huck himself is notopen to criticism. That it was a heavy one we gather from his ferventacknowledgment: It took my breath away, and I haven't memberedthat this article was to be read by every one that took the ChristianUnion) she was rather shocked and a little displeased. No type-setter invented to this day could match it foraccuracy and precision when it was in perfect order, but its point ofperfection was apparently a vanishing point.
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