ted out opportunities
whereby he could make heavily by speculation. No one of these statements
is true. Mr. Rogers neither lent nor gave Mark Twain money for
investment, and he never allowed him to speculate when he could prevent
it. He invested for him wisely, but he never bought for him a share of
stock that he did not have the money in hand to pay for in full-money
belonging to and earned by Clemens himself. What he did give to Mark
Twain was his priceless counsel and time--gifts more precious than
any mere sum of money--boons that Mark Twain could accept without
humiliation. He did accept them and was unceasingly grateful.--[Mark
Twain never lost an opportunity for showing his gratitude to Henry
Rogers. The reader is referred to Appendix T, at the end of the last
volume, for a brief tribute which Clemens prepared in 1902. Mr. Rogers
would not consent to its publication.]

CCI. SOCIAL LIFE IN VIENNA

Clemens, no longer worried about finances and full of ideas and
prospects, was writing now at a great rate, mingling with all sorts of
social events, lecturing for charities, and always in the lime-light.

I have abundant peace of mind again--no sense of burden. Work is become
a pleasure--it is not labor any longer.

He was the lion of the Austrian capital, and it was natural that he
should revel in his new freedom and in the universal tribute. Mrs.
Clemens wrote that they were besieged with callers of every description:

Such funny combinations are here sometimes: one duke, several
counts, several writers, several barons, two princes, newspaper
women, etc. I find so far, without exception, that the high-up
aristocracy are simple and cordial and agreeable.

When Clemens appeared as a public entertainer all society turned out to
hear him and introductions were sought by persons of the most exclusive
rank. Once a royal introduction led to an adventure. He had been giving
a charity reading in Vienna, and at the end of it was introduced,
with Mrs. Clemens, to her Highness, Countess Bardi, a princess of
the Portuguese royal house by marriage and sister to the Austrian
Archduchess Maria Theresa. They realized that something was required
after such an introduction; that, in fact, they must go within a day or
two and pay their respects by writing their names in the visitors' book,
kept in a sort of anteroom of the royal establishment. A few days later,
about noon, they drove to the archducal palace, i