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He accepted invitations from the Rogers family and from many others, and was presently so gay, so widely sought, and seen in so many places that one of his acquaintances, "Jamie" Dodge, dubbed him the "Belle of New York." Henry Rogers, meanwhile, was "looking into things." He had reasonable faith in the type-machine, and advanced a large sum on the chance of its proving a success.
But when you talk about work ?" He finished his sentence with a note of inquiry and a half apologetic glance at her slight form and frail, white fingers. "I haven't always been a model," she explained with some dignity. "Would to God I never had! I can sew better than most, and I can work a type-machine. That's what I used to do before he came.
But now it is the other way about: the person who DOESN'T own one is a curiosity. I saw a type-machine for the first time in what year? I suppose it was 1873 because Nasby was with me at the time, and it was in Boston. We must have been lecturing, or we could not have been in Boston, I take it. I quitted the platform that season. But never mind about that, it is no matter.
Altogether, these experiences in finance cost Mark Twain a fair-sized fortune, though, after all, they were as nothing compared with the great type-machine calamity which we shall hear of in a later chapter. Fortunately, Mark Twain was not greatly upset by his losses. They exasperated him for the moment, perhaps, but his violence waned presently, and the whole matter was put aside forever.
She laughed mockingly, and tried to draw away her hand, for it was burnt by the heat of his. Barfoot held her firmly. 'What is your work? Copying with a type-machine, and teaching others to do the same isn't that it? 'The work by which I earn money, yes. But if it were no more than that 'Explain, then. Passion was overmastering him as he watched the fine scorn in her eyes.
I have dictated to a typewriter before but not autobiography. Between that experience and the present one there lies a mighty gap more than thirty years! It is sort of lifetime. In that wide interval much has happened to the type-machine as well as to the rest of us. At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too.
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