(Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed
This great ... Mark Twain, 1875 .... be dead by the time of the next transits, ..... 
Little did he know how familiar he .... wasn't bad enough, here Le Gentil received 
...... aroused almost as much interest as the celestial objects viewed.