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General Grant, surrounded by his splendidly uniformed staff, sat in theforeground, and behind was ranged a levee of foremost citizens of therepublic. The cat was always purring on the hearth at Stormfield--several cats--for Mark Twain's fondness for this clean, intelligent domestic animalremained, to the end, one of his happiest characteristics. Don't breathe. He made a birthday aphorism on thesubject: The man who is a pessimist before he is forty-eight knows too much; theman who is an optimist after he is forty-eight knows too little.

have lordedit over those other creatures, walking on his hind legs, waving his arms,practising and getting ready for the pulpit. e of the business itself, to some onewith means sufficient to put it on an easier financial footing. Mark Twain's God was of colossalproportions--so vast, indeed, that the constellated stars were butmolecules in His veins--a God as big as space itself. It reads quite to suit me without altering a word now that it isn't to see print until I am dead.