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It was pleasantthere, and they would have remained longer but for the Berlin lectureengagement. A sort of blank ensued whichClemens filled in the only possible way. After a littlehe got up and began walking up and down the room. The floors are sleek & shiny & full of reflections, for each is a mirror in its way, softly imaging all objects after the subdued fashion of forest lakes.

The first person I spoke to about it was Robert Underwood Johnson, of the Century. I will send you that--& you must let no one but Ossip read it. In these cases I have not hesitated to amend my notes where itseemed to lend reality to his utterance, though, even so, there is alwayslacking--and must be--the wonder of his personality. It wasnight when he arrived, and next morning some one at the hotel directedhim to Quarry Farm.