The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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it for her right away, and said so; but she reserved the privilege to  
herself. I judge she is accumulating Hot Stuff--as George Ade would  
say....  
Livy is coming along: eats well, sleeps some, is mostly very gay, not  
very often depressed; spends all day on the porch, sleeps there a part  
of the night, makes excursions in carriage and in wheel-chair; and,  
in the matter of superintending everything and everybody, has resumed  
business at the old stand.  
Did you ever go house-hunting 3,000 miles away? It costs three months of  
writing and telegraphing to pull off a success. We finished 3 or 4 days  
ago, and took the Villa Papiniano (dam the name, I have to look at it  
a minutes after writing it, and then am always in doubt) for a year  
by cable. Three miles outside of Florence, under Fiesole--a darling  
location, and apparently a choice house, near Fiske.  
There's 7 in our gang. All women but me. It means trunks and things.  
But thanks be! To-day (this is private) comes a most handsome voluntary  
document with seals and escutcheons on it from the Italian Ambassador  
(who is a stranger to me) commanding the Customs people to keep their  
hands off the Clemens's things. Now wasn't it lovely of him? And wasn't  
it lovely of me to let Livy take a pencil and edit my answer and knock a  
good third of it out?  
And that's a nice ship--the Irene! new--swift--13,000 tons--rooms up in  
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