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Members of the Clemens household were impressed by this royal attention. Once, in later years, commentingon Susy's record, he said: The mind cannot heal broken bones, and doubtless there are ma He says that it isn't more than a hundredmillion years old, and he thinks the human race has inhabited it aboutthirty thousand years of that time. Well, then, I suppose it was for some other reason.

Then he had beenunsophisticated, new, not always at his ease; now he was the polishedfamiliar of courts and embassies--at home equally with poets and princes,authors and ambassadors and kings. In the middle of the night came a sound ofinnumerable voices in the air and the rush of invisible wings; thefuneral torches wavered, burned blue, and went out. High-schoolcommencement day came first. Rogers to offer to the magazines.