I suppose Phelps was in the same difficulty. Hemade a speech to them that night at the Waldorf--where he proposed forthe City College a chair of citizenship, an idea which met with heartyapplause. If I could read it over myself many little matters of anecdote and incident would suggest themselves to me. In the midst of histangle of the previous year he had paused to give it attention.
It was the thing he hadproposed to Grant some three years previously, during his call that daywith Howells concerning the Toronto consulship. hat something happened, either in reality or in hisimagination, which justified his version of it we may believe. To issue later commands requiring the tiger to let the fat stranger alone, and requiring the sheep to Arriving there, Clemens laid off his dark overcoat andstood there, all in white, certainly a startling figure among thoseclerks, newspaper men, and incidental politicians.
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