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There--now what do you think of that?"
Well, I don't know, sir. It--well, it appears to me--to be dubious
enough."
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Du--leave the house! I am a ruined man. Those Humboldt savages never
will forgive me for tangling their brains up with this inhuman letter.
I have lost the respect of the Methodist Church, the board of aldermen--"
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Well, I haven't anything to say about that, because I may have missed it
a little in their cases, but I WAS too many for the Baldwin's Ranch
people, General!"
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Leave the house! Leave it forever and forever, too."
I regarded that as a sort of covert intimation that my service could be
dispensed with, and so I resigned. I never will be a private secretary
to a senator again. You can't please that kind of people. They don't
know anything. They can't appreciate a party's efforts.
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