Laird concluded to fight, at last. The author had the real Laura of his childhood inhis mind when he wrote that, though the story itself bears no resemblanceto her life. The temptation came to pocket his good-fortune and say nothing. Still, we were bent on seeing the thing through.
That boy is going to make aprodigious hit. He would write what we weredoing, and I would write poetry, and Mark would say: 'For Heaven's sake, Cutter, keep your poems to yourself. Howells in his reply urged. Brown brings us toMark Twain's first contribution to the Atlantic Monthly.
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