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  • This battery was in command of a nice, grave, dignified, gentlefaced little black boy whose age was about twelve, and whose name, for some reason or other, was Reginald.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • This battery was in command of a nice, grave, dignified, gentlefaced little black boy whose age was about twelve, and whose name, for some reason or other, was Reginald.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • This battery was in command of a nice, grave, dignified, gentlefaced little black boy whose age was about twelve, and whose name, for some reason or other, was Reginald.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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