The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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This is a 9 k-m. current and the wind is with us; we shall make Avignon  
before 4 o'clock. I saw watermelons and pomegranates for sale at St.  
Andeol.  
With a power of love, Sweetheart,  
SAML.  
HOTEL D'EUROPE, AVIGNON,  
Monday, 6 p.m., Sept. 28.  
Well, Livy darling, I have been having a perfect feast of letters for an  
hour, and I thank you and dear Clam with all my heart. It's like hearing  
from home after a long absence.  
It is early to be in bed, but I'm always abed before 9, on this voyage;  
and up at 7 or a trifle later, every morning. If I ever take such a trip  
again, I will have myself called at the first tinge of dawn and get to  
sea as soon after as possible. The early dawn on the water-nothing can  
be finer, as I know by old Mississippi experience. I did so long for you  
and Sue yesterday morning--the most superb sunrise!--the most marvelous  
sunrise! and I saw it all from the very faintest suspicion of the coming  
dawn all the way through to the final explosion of glory. But it had  
interest private to itself and not to be found elsewhere in the world;  
for between me and it, in the far distant-eastward, was a silhouette  
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