MARK TWAIN

determined repression, choking it down and keeping the
signs of it from showing on the outside.

In his later years Mark Twain might have
revised his opinion of female audiences. Long
before his death, the convention that restrained
women from open demonstration of their enjoy-
ment had disappeared. He frequently and with
great delight talked or read to colleges like
Barnard, and always came home enthusiastic
over his reception.

Also, had he lived until today he might have
found less to rave about concerning kings. He
could have transferred his animus to dictators.

For any man or woman not rich or of noble rank, there
was an imaginary difference between England and hell, a
hundred years ago.

The institution of Royalty in any form is an insult to
the human race.

The man who believes there is a man in the world who
is better than himself merely because he was born royal
or noble, is a dog with the soul of a dog—and at bottom is
a liar.

If the master of a kingdom is so important that God
will not entrust his appointment to men but appoints him
Himself, it then follows that the master of that master is
a still more important officer and so this one must espe-
cially be divinely appointed. Therefore one is logically
compelled to say—"Nell Gwynne, by the Grace of God
monarch of Great Britain etc."

People seem to think they are citizens of the Republican

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