Its heroine's name was Ambulinia,and its flowery, half-meaningless periods and impossible situationsdelighted Clemens beyond measure. ary that he should be compared with anybody; he had been inthat--as in those peculiarities which had invited his disaster--justhimself. Louis branch, a nephew of Frau von Versen,was in London just then, and wrote at once, through Chatto & Windus,begging Mark Twain to command his relative's purse. (See Chapters cxii to cxv; also Appendix O.
I think he took the trouble to send White a personal, hand-written letterconcerning them, although, with the habit of dictation, he had begun, ashe said, to loathe the use of the pen. Mark Twain's interest in Satan would seem later to have extended to hisrelatives, for there are at least three bul But none of the others annoyed him. Clemens'shelp, he had reconsidered, and wrote: My wife is a little troubled by my wanting my nom de plume put to the Joan of Arc so soon.
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