Sam, said John, when they parted, this is probably the last time weshall meet on this earth. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. Then, of course, it wasflashed all over the world. I am heart and soul in anymovement that will rescue the Congo and hang Leopold, but I cannot writeany more.
And yet, says Howells, I think now that if it had come it would havebeen successful. McClure was in England with a proposition for starting a newmagazine whose complexion was to be peculiarly American, with Mark Twainas its editor. The prospective Catholicpurchaser had decided that the Pope's Life was not necessary to hissalvation or even to his entertainment. Each of these letters requires the same variety of treatment and subject that one puts into a book; but in the book each chapter doesn't have to be rounded and complete in itself.
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