It is the time appointed. The funeral has begun. Four hundred miles away, but I can see it all, just as if I were there. The scene is the library in the Langdon homestead. Jean’s coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy’s coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother’s stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand, after a little time. _FROM_ “ONE OF HIS LATEST MEMORANDA” (1909) THE IMPARTIAL FRIEND Death—the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure—the rich and the poor—the loved and the unloved. ----- Footnote 1: Through an exchange of clothing with the little prince Tom Canty suddenly found himself royalty, and upon the death of Henry VIII is now king. Footnote 2: Miles Hendon, who has taken the real prince—now a wanderer—under his protection. In the course of their adventures the two have landed in prison. Footnote 3: Nigger Jim is a runaway slave to whom Huck affords protection. Footnote 4: Huck and Nigger Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on their raft have been struck by a steamboat. Jim has disappeared but Huck, making his way to shore, has been taken in by Col. Grangerford, whose family is in bitter feud with the Shepherdsons. Edmund Clarence Stedman declared this chapter of Huck Finn’s adventures to be “as dramatic and powerful an episode as I know in modern literature.” Footnote 5: Buck Grangerford, a boy of about Huck’s age. Footnote 6: On his arrival at the Grangerford home Huck had given his name as George Jackson. Footnote 7: The Yankee and his captor have arrived at Camelot and are in King Arthur’s castle. Footnote 8: The Yankee with the maid, Alisande, a great talker, is on the way to rescue the imprisoned princesses. Footnote 9: The King and the Yankee travelling in disguise have fallen into the clutches of a slave-dealer. THE END ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 44, changed "even the" to "even in the". 2. P. 49, changed "never revoked" to "never been revoked". 3. P. 126, changed "“Oh, don’t _I_!”" to "“Oh, don’t _I_!” said Joe,". 4. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 5. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 6. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 7. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Moments with Mark Twain, by Mark Twain