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I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days promises to make good the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme.

However, as the twentieth century progressed, the lure of industrial employment prompted a massive migration northward.

Instead, he discovered only a small, blackened plaque on an industrial wall marking the approximate site of the original Globe Theatre.

Clemens eloquently captures the bittersweet realization that the romanticized world of his youth had irrevocably vanished, replaced by the relentless march of industrial progress.