In one ofhis note-book entries he says:Szczepanik is not a Paige. He does quote at great length and he transferred most of it later to hisbook. To me it istrue; but it has no logical right to be true, and I do not expect beliefin it. It was little more than a week later that one of the old friends he hadmentioned, Thomas Brackett Reed, apparently well and strong that birthdayevening, passed from the things of this world.
Clemens, remembering thatearlier period of sorrow, was depressed with forebodings. n of mine--that a man's mind is a mere machine--an automatic machine--which is handled entirely from the One railway trip he enjoyed--a thirty-five-mile flight down the steepmountain of Darjeeling in a little canopied hand-car. We are all likethat.
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