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As a matter of fact, he loved Twichell's companionship, and was always inviting him to share his journeys to Boston, to Bermuda, to Washington wherever interest or fancy led him. His plan now was to take the family to Germany in the spring, and let Twichell join them later for a summer tramp down through the Black Forest and Switzerland. Meantime the Clemens household took up the study of German.
He was not often recognized in these wanderings, and his pen-name was carefully concealed. It was a relief to him not to be an object of curiosity and lavish attention. Twichell's conscience now and then prompted him to reveal the truth. "I could not forbear telling him who Mark was, and the mingled surprise and pleasure his face exhibited made me glad I had done so."
All day long the friends would tramp and walk together, and when they did not walk they would hire a diligence or any vehicle that came handy, but, whatever their means of travel the joy of comradeship amid those superb surroundings was the same. In Twichell's letters home we get pleasant pictures of the Mark Twain of that day: "Mark, to-day, was immensely absorbed in flowers.
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