Tue irate parent stormed up and down the room before the trembling suitor.
"Do you mean to say," he shouted, "that you came io my office to ask for my daughter hand? I might as well be frank with you and tell you that you could have saved yourself a journey."
"Oh, that's all right," sighed the suitor. "I had another message to deliver in the same building."
The King and Mark Twain Mark Twain commented once at a public dinner that he had written a friendly letter to Queen Victoria protesting against a tax being levied against him. "I don't know you," he wrote, "but I've met your son. He was at the head of a procession in the Strand, and I was on a bus."
Years afterward he met the King, and they had a long talk. At parting the King said, "I glad to have met you again.
The word "again" troubled Twain, who ed whether the King had not mistaken him for someone else. The reply, "Why, don't you remember meeting me in the Strand when I was at the head of a procession and on a "bus?" revealed the stre
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