od many--expressed enjoyment and approval, also(some of them) a good deal of satisfaction that Mark Twain had returnedto his earlier form. It was a situation full of amusing possibilities; but he reached noconclusion in the matter. Considered from every point of view, Joan of Arc isMark Twain's supreme literary expression, the loftiest, the mostdelicate, the most luminous example of his work. Also she had severe palpitation.
He is speaking just now of a Grant dinner which he attended where Depew spoke. He attended, and willingly, or at leastpatiently, sat through the various recitals and orations andorc ainly would have arousedinterest--that is to say, an old-fashioned six-day steamboat-race fromNew Orleans to St. They were fond of him,but he was a great tease.
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