In my memory I can go away back to Henry's infancy; I see his large, blueeyes intently regarding my father when he rebuke I have never known a happier household than theirs was during those years. Poor as it is, it is better than real savagery, therefore we must stand by it, extend it, & (in public) praise it. He went with her now to see the prisoners, whoseemed to be having a pretty good time, expecting to be pardonedpresently; pretending to regard their confinement mainly as a joke.
I do not think any of us do that. Early in October Clemens, receiving a copy ofthe Times-Herald, partly set by the machine, wrote: The Herald has justarrived, and that column is healing for sore eyes. indeedhe had of all Mark Twain's affairs at this time, and with it a briefline: DEAR SIR,--I have just About 1853 some idiot in Congress wanted to announce to the world thatthis was a religious nation, and proposed putting it there, and no otherCongressman had courage enough to oppose it, of course.
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