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THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN mind all memory of the time when I misbehaved toward you and hurt you; I am resolved to consider it forgiven, and to store up and remember only the charming hours of the journey and the times when I was not unworthy to be with you and share a companionship which to me stands first after Livy's.

Clemens had joined his family at Lausanne, and presently they journeyed down into Italy, returning later—to Germany to Munich, where they lived quietly with Fräulein Dahlweiner at No. 1a Karl-strasse, while he worked on his new book of travel. When spring came they went to Paris, and later to London, where the usual round of entertainment briefly claimed them. It was the 3d of September, 1879, when they finally reached New York. The papers said that Mark Twain had changed in his year and a half of absence. He had, somehow, taken on a traveled look. One paper remarked that he looked older than when he went to Germany, and that his hair had turned quite gray. 218