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An admirer of Shelley's works, Clemens could not resisttaking up the defense of Shelley's abandoned wife. It was during this Bermuda visit that Mark Twain added the finishingparagraph to his article, The Turning-Point in My Life, which, atHowells's suggestion, he had been preparing for Harper's Bazar. One of them sold for forty-three dollars, which was said to be thehighest price ever paid for the letter of a living man. ADVICE TO GOOD LITTLE GIRLS--Enterprise.

Gladstone, an intimatefriend of the owner, had made it a favorite retreat at one period of hislife, and the place to-day is converted into a public garden calledGladstone Park. Webster & Co. Then he repeated,in his most impressive manner, that stately conclusion of his Liverpoolspeech, and the room became still and the eyes of his hearers grew dim. If a friend came, he was willing to walk muchfarther; and we often descended the hill in one direction or another,though usual