Otherwise, I think, some one would have risen ere this to protest against some of Mr. Clemens' gentle idiosyncrasies displayed in the first installment. A while later he is permitted to die. At least there is a line to that effect. It does assuredly seem to me pretty queer usage for a man who was so lately toasted and feted by the Lotos Club, as the leading exponent of literary art. That is by no means a solitary gem of its kind.
Careful reading shows the like upon almost every page.
It is not too much to say, in fact, that there is slovenly construction in every other paragraph. But the manner is a trifling burden compared with the matter of it. He had chosen his place, his people. If the facts about them are not humorous, so much the worse for facts. Witness the naming of the hero.