We were shown into the Governor's private office, and I saw Mr.
Cleveland for the first time.

We three stood chatting together.

I was born lazy, and I comforted myself by turning the corner of a table into a sort of seat.

Presently the Governor said: "Mr.Clemens, I was a fellow citizen of yours in Buffalo a good many months, a good while ago, and during those months you burst suddenly into a mighty fame, out of a previous long-continued and no doubt proper obscurity--but I was a nobody, and you wouldn't notice me nor have anything to do with me.

But now that I have become somebody, you have changed your style, and you come here to shake hands with me and be sociable.