MARK TWAIN
June 21. Left the villa. All arrived with the baggage at
the Hotel de la Ville. First day of the sad journey home.
June 26. When we were ready to leave the hotel at
noon Jean was not well enough. We canceled all arrange-
ments. Wait over till tomorrow at 1120 P.M.
Our ship is the Prince Oscar. Our dear casket went on
board at Genoa, yesterday.
June 27. Came down to Naples. Hotel du Vesuve, good.
The green tin box (1870) then the two black tin boxes
(1896) all three now succeeded by the plain tin box
(June 1904). After a little who will care for these so hal-
lowed treasures ?
How all values have shrunken.
June 29. Sailed last night, at ten. The bugle called to
breakfast. I recognized the notes, and was distressed.
When I heard them last Livy heard them with me; now
they fall upon her ears unheeded.
This ship is the Prince Oscar, Hamburg American.
June 30. Clara keeps her bed and cannot bear to see
any strangers.
The weather is beautiful, the sea is smooth and curi-
ously blue.
In my life there have been 68 Junes—but how vague
and colorless 67 of them are contrasted with the deep
blackness of this one.
July i. I cannot reproduce Livy's face in my mind's
eye—I was never in my life able to reproduce a face. It
is a curious infirmity—and now at last I realize that it is
a calamity.
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