The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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a dreadful cold and sore throat on board ship and still keeps them  
in stock--so she could only travel 4 hours a day. She wanted to dive  
straight through, but I had different notions about the wisdom of it. I  
found that 4 hours a day was the best she could do. Before I forget  
it, our permanent address is Care Messrs. Koester & Co., Backers,  
Heidelberg. We go there tomorrow.  
Poor Susy! From the day we reached German soil, we have required Rosa to  
speak German to the children--which they hate with all their souls. The  
other morning in Hanover, Susy came to us (from Rosa, in the nursery)  
and said, in halting syllables, "Papa, vie viel uhr ist es?"--then  
turned with pathos in her big eyes, and said, "Mamma, I wish Rosa was  
made in English."  
(Unfinished)  
Frankfort was a brief halting-place, their destination being  
Heidelberg. They were presently located there in the beautiful  
Schloss hotel, which overlooks the old castle with its forest  
setting, the flowing Neckar, and the distant valley of the Rhine.  
Clemens, who had discovered the location, and loved it, toward the  
end of May reported to Howells his felicities.  
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