The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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of the New Bedford boat, who pleasantly accosted me in the Grand Central  
August 5) but the doctor came up from New York day before yesterday, and  
gave positive orders that I must not stir from here before frost. It is  
because I was threatened with a swoon, 10 or 12 days ago, and went  
to New York a day or two later to attend my nephew's funeral and got  
horribly exhausted by the heat and came back here and had a bilious  
collapse. In 24 hours I was as sound as a nut again, but nobody believes  
it but me.  
This is a prodigiously satisfactory place, and I am so glad I don't have  
to go back to the turmoil and rush of New York. The house stands high  
and the horizons are wide, yet the seclusion is perfect. The nearest  
public road is half a mile away, so there is nobody to look in, and I  
don't have to wear clothes if I don't want to. I have been down stairs  
in night-gown and slippers a couple of hours, and have been photographed  
in that costume; but I will dress, now, and behave myself.  
That doctor had half an idea that there is something the matter with my  
brain... Doctors do know so little and they do charge so much for it. I  
wish Henry Rogers would come here, and I wish you would come with him.  
You can't rest in that crowded place, but you could rest here, for sure!  
I would learn bridge, and entertain you, and rob you.  
With love to you both,  
Ever yours,  
S. L. C.  
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