Doctor Holmes, in a letter to theauthor, speaks of the frequently quaint and amusing conceits, but doesnot find it in his heart to refer to the book as literature. There wasn't a completely smooth surface anywhere, but they cleared away the larger and sharper of the bits of stone that littered the ground and spread the blankets. It was a time for truth. at stir inthe East, arousing there a good deal more enthusiasm than in the magazineoffice or the city of their publication.
It's been a long time since we had a moonlight ramble. Everywhere in Tom Sawyer there is a quality, entirely apart from thehumor and the narrative, which the younger reader is likely to overlook. TheAthenaeum Club made him a visiting member (an honor considered next toknighthood); Punch quoted him; societies banqueted him; his apartments,as before; were besieged by callers. On the other hand, I might have imagined that, too.
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