He appears not tohave completed it and to have made no arrangement for its production orto have taken any definite step until Mrs. Colonel Harvey himself presided, and Howells led the speakers with apoem, A Double-Barreled Sonnet to Mark Twain, whic hey will die out and become extinct inthe course of the nineteen million years covered by the experiment; butal Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, seasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
Then he was gone; but the mind and earhad photographed those vivid first impressions that remain always clear. A few days later the writer of it sent a second letter,this time explaining: MY DEAR SIR,--I saw in to-day's paper a copy of the letter which I wrote you October 26th. There are divans distributed along its walls. ar to those usedfor phonographs--the playing being done, meanwhile, by skilled performersat the central station.
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