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Only here thelikeness ceases. Clemens wrote an article at this period which he called the War Prayer. the comforting assurance thatthe war was not one of conquest or annexation, but a righteous defense ofthe weak. he excursion he wassomewhat in doubt as to the propriety of bursting upon Washington inDecember in that snowy plumage.

But in the early spring days all the landscape was in the beautiful nakedness of the Northern winter. In a letter to Rogers he said:Pond offers me $10,000 for 10 nights, but I do not feel strongly tempted. The Queen ofRumania, Carmen Sylva, a poetess in her own right, was a friend and warmadmirer of Mark Twain. beauty undergoes a perpetual changefrom one miracle to another, yet never runs short of fresh surprises andnew inventions.