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I should have been obliged to take it, but I was born with a speculative instinct & I did not want that temptation put in my way. when heremembered it, for he was financing the typesetting machine by this time,and it was costing a pretty sum. In one of his letters to Twichell of that summer, Clemens wrote of thearrival there of the colored jubilee singers, always favorites of his,and of his great delight in them. GovernorFrancis and Mayor Wells were of the party, and Count and CountessRochambeau and Marquis de Lafay

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