The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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Now, these countries are different: they would do all that, if it were  
native. It is true they praise God, but that is merely a formality, and  
nothing in it; they open out their whole hearts to no foreigner.  
The musical critics of the German press praise the Jubilees with great  
enthusiasm--acquired technique etc, included.  
One of the jubilee men is a son of General Joe Johnson, and was educated  
by him after the war. The party came up to the house and we had a  
pleasant time.  
This is paradise, here--but of course we have got to leave it by and by.  
The 18th of August--[Anniversary of Susy Clemens's death.]--has come and  
gone, Joe--and we still seem to live.  
With love from us all.  
MARK.  
Clemens declared he would as soon spend his life in Weggis "as  
anywhere else in the geography," but October found them in Vienna  
for the winter, at the Hotel Metropole. The Austrian capital was  
just then in a political turmoil, the character of which is hinted  
in the following:  
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