MARK TWAIN
August ii. Two years ago Livy was stricken at York
Harbor 7 in the morning. From that time until the fatal
5th of June 1904, she never saw a well day.
Sept. i. Died at Greenwich, Ct. my sister, Pamela
Moffatt, aged about 73. She had been 60 years an invalid.
Death-dates this year: Jan. 14, June 5, Sept. I.
Oct. 13. Executed my last will.
Now, I have got a word for it when "purring" is a shade
too strong to properly describe that almost undetectable
soft rumbling sound, which you feel rather than hear,
when you press a kitten to your ear. I pressed the kitten
to Clara's ear and said, "There—now you can hear him
smoldering"
The only very marked difference between the average
civilized man and the average savage is that the one is
gilded and the other painted.
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he de-
posits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could
not hatch it.
The course of free love never runs smooth. I suppose we
have all tried it.
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in
the New—the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the under-
taker will be sorry.
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