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I realize nowthat this gave the dramatic finish to his day, and furnished him withproper appetite for his dinner. e was especially qualified, with itspicturesque mixture of German and English and its unfailing humor. If you had done this every now & then along through life it would not have petrified. He put the matter aside then, and fell to talking of Jim Gillis and theothers I had visited, dwelling especially on Gillis's astonishing facultyfor

I do not believe in special providences. Both Howells and Clemens went to New Haven toreceive their honors. When they had gone we went down to dinner. Susy's discovery that the secret of her biography was known is shown bythe next entry, and the touch of severity in it was p