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Since then the lack of any strong interest to employ his mind has enabled the tedious weariness to kill him. CLXIXTHE COMING OF KIPLINGIt was the summer of 1889 that Mark Twain first met Rudyard Kipling. You never hear of it. ose of pink velvet, with big knee-knots of brocaded yellow ribbon; pearl-tinted silk stockings,

, Carlyle, Disraeli, Allison, Junius, Blair, Macaulay,Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, Southey, Lamb, Landor, Smollett The worst had happened; other and distracting interests were dead. ster of diamonds and emeralds; gold-embroidered doublet of green velvet, with slashed sleeves And Clemens, though his conscience pricked him, obeyed, as was his habitat such times.