The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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Lord, what a conversion! You were a scoffer three months ago."  
I? I wasn't."  
You were. You made elaborate fun of me in this very room."  
I did not, Clemens."  
It's a lie, Howells, you did."  
I detailed to him the conversation of that time--with the stately  
argument furnished by Boyesen in the fact that a patient had actually  
been killed by a mind-curist; and Howells's own smart remark that when  
the mind-curist is done with you, you have to call in a "regular" at  
last because the former can't procure you a burial permit.  
At last he gave in--he said he remembered that talk, but had now been a  
mind-curist so long it was difficult for him to realize that he had ever  
been anything else.  
Mrs. H. came skipping in, presently, the very person, to a dot, that she  
used to be, so many years ago.  
Mrs. H. said: "People may call it what they like, but it is  
just hypnotism, and that's all it is--hypnotism pure and simple.  
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