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End of Brilliant Career Came Peacefully - Biographical Sketch.
By Associated Press.
Redding, Conn., April 22. - Samuel Langhorn Clemens, (Mark Twain), died painlessly at 6:30 o'clock last night of angina pectoris. He lapsed into a coma at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and never recovered consciousness. It was the end of a man out-worn by grief and acute agony of body.
For long hours Wednesday the gray, aquiline features lay moulded in the inertia of death, which the pulsation sank lower and lower, but late at night Mark Twain passed from stupor into the first nature sleep he had known since he returned from Bermuda and yesterday morning he woke refreshed, even faintly cheerful, and in full possession of all his faculties.
He recognized his daughter, Clara, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowisch, spoke a rational word or two and feeling himself unequal to conversation wrote out in pencil:
"Give me my glasses."
They were his last words. Laying them aside he sank first in reverse and later into final unconsciousness...
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