The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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which to gently and thoroughly filter into me. Your humor is so very  
subtle, and elusive--(well, often it's just a vanishing breath of  
perfume which a body isn't certain he smelt till he stops and takes  
another smell) whereas you can smell other...  
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Among Mark Twain's old schoolmates in Hannibal was little Helen  
Kercheval, for whom in those early days he had a very tender spot  
indeed. But she married another schoolmate, John Garth, who in time  
became a banker, highly respected and a great influence. John and  
Helen Garth have already been mentioned in the letter of May 17th.  
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To John Garth, in Hannibal:  
HARTFORD, July 3 '82.  
DEAR JOHN,--Your letter of June 19 arrived just one day after we ought  
to have been in Elmira, N. Y. for the summer: but at the last moment the  
baby was seized with scarlet fever. I had to telegraph and countermand  
the order for special sleeping car; and in fact we all had to fly around  
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