Meantime he was back into literary harness; a notebook entry forOctober 24, 1896, says: Wrote the fist chapter of the book to-day-'Around the World'. Most honestly do I wish that I could say a softening word or two in defense of Huck's character since you wish i Once he attended a small dinner given him by GeorgeSmalley at the Metropolitan Club; but it was a private affair, with onlygood friends present. Club by the Lord Mayor of London atthe Mansion House, also a dinner given by the American Society at theHotel Cecil in honor of the Fourth of July.
(See Chapters clxv to clxviii. Every person in thehall rose and cheered, waving handkerchiefs and umbrellas. them, for Bermuda was too peaceful and too far away,and, besides, he had faith in the Mark Twain Company's ability to lookafter his affairs. He pursued no such method in this instance.
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