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I had written, suggestingthat perhaps he would like to put up a small library building, as theAdams lot faced the corner where Jean had passed every day when she rodeto the station for the mail. He spoke of thisnow and then when it had passed, and it seemed to amuse him. He mightproperly have omitted the last item, but of that later. Susy's biography refers to this incident at considerable length.

Clemens's interest, however, grew. It gave them a glimpse ofthe country life of the Bohemian nobility which was most interesting. m Sawyer, sohe read the whitewashing scene, Peter and the Pain-killer, and suchchapters until tea-time. On another evening he began: The mental evolution of the species proceeds apparently by regularprogress