Without going further it is proper to say here that the pictures in thefirst edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court justifiedthe author's faith in the artist of his selection. Fields said Aldrich begged to come, & went away crying because shewouldn't let him. down to fourteen hundred and seventy-five at one fellblow! Happy, happy world, that knows at last t te, so he borrowed myovercoat and put it on the gorilla and photographed it, and spread thatpicture out over the world as mine.
What life, energy, fire in a man past 70! & how he does play! Heis easily the greatest pianist in the world. It was absorbingly interesting; his quaint, unhurriedfashion of speech, the unconscious movement of his hand I think I have seldom deliberately set out to be humorous, but have nearly always allowed the humor to drop in or stay out, according to its fancy. I should wish the Countess to move out of Italy, out of Europe, out of the planet.
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