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There wereseveral large windows in his room, and he called them his picture-gallery. Later, the usual crowd of admirers gatheredaround him, among them I remember the minister from Costa Rica, the Howells speaks of Mark Twain's absolute content with his new home, andthese are the proper words' to express it. But the American people were quite ready to accept him in any of hisphases, fully realizing that whatever his philosoph

rant of hisfamily history, told him more about it than he knew himself, besidesreading a list of name There was no particular of the business which he did not scrutinize and master . By the end of January, 1898, Mark Twain had accumulated enough money tomake the final payment to his creditors and stand clear of debt. He once told Howells, with the wild joy of his boyish heart, how Mrs.