He was cordial andtalkative, and quite evidently full of pleasant anticipation. Anything that he might choose to say upon anysubject whatever was seized upon and magnified and printed withhead-lines. It had all the complications of thehuman mechanism, all the liability of getting out of repair, and it couldnot be replaced with the ease and immediateness of the human being. Writing of it to Twichell that night he said: I was hoping and praying that the Princess would come and catch us up there
soldiers and sailors of today who are enlisted for another most righteouswar, and utter the hope that They arranged to sail on the 6th of June by the French line. Sometimes he spoke a few words; but oftener his eyes were fullof tears--his voice would not come. It was hinted to Mark Twain that spring, that before leaving Vienna, itwould be proper for him to pay his respects to Emperor Franz Josef, whohad expressed a wish to meet him.
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