ves by the ears, and I never could seem to get the chance to work them in, in a way that would look sufficiently casual. In one of his aphorisms he wrote: Let us endeavor so to live that whenwe come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. I finished Guy Mannering that curious,curious book, with its mob of squalid shadows gibbering around a singleflesh-&-blood being--Dinmont; a Summer arrangements for the family being nowconcluded, he left within the week and set sail on the Havel for NewYork.
Therewere times when Mark Twain wrote without much sequence, digressing thisway and that, as his fancy led him, charmingly and entertainingly enough,with no large, logical idea. CCXXVCHRISTIAN SCIENCE CONTROVERSIESThe North American Review for December (1902) contained an instalment ofthe Christian Science series which Mark Twain had written in Viennaseveral years before. I never had anything just like it. Why in nation did you offer him your cue? Wasn't that the courteous thing to do? I asked.
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