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2984And the children-- Miss Susie and little Clara?
2984Cable,he said,"do you know anything about this book, the Arthurian legends of Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Arthure?"
2984Did you ever hear of Mark Twain?
2984Do you expect to pay extra fare?
2984Do you mean to say that you''re not going to vote for him?
2984George,he said,"what pictures are those that gentleman left?"
2984Hain''t we all the fools in town on our side? 2984 I said,''Who the h-- l are you?
2984M.--What does it mean? 2984 MAMA-- What did you say?
2984Oh, Youth, have you done anything?
2984Well,he said,"who told you you could go in this car?"
2984What are you doing here?
2984What would you give for a copy?
2984Which way did he go, Youth?
2984Who is he, George?
2984Who-- who in the world is that?
2984And what the flavor can surpass Of sugar, spirit, lemons?
2984As Annie was about to kiss it he suddenly withdrew his hand and said,"And will you, a little Protestant, kiss the Pope''s ring?"
2984At one meal-- or, if you prefer, during one day-- how many men will he eat if fresh?"
2984By and by this investor, returning from Europe, dropped in and said:"Well, did anything happen?"
2984By the way, third''s a lucky number for length of days, is n''t it?
2984Can Clara and I have it all for our own?"
2984Can you conceive of a man''s getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation?
2984Clemens?"
2984Clemens?"
2984Curious, but did n''t Florence want a Cromwell?
2984Did I ever tell you the plot of it?
2984Do n''t you feel well?"
2984Do n''t you know it''s Mark Twain and that he''ll talk all night?"
2984Do n''t you know they are calling for you?"
2984Have you been secreted in the closet or lurking on the shed roof?
2984He had never had a lesson, she said; if he could only have lessons what might he not accomplish?
2984He said to himself:"Why did n''t I go now?
2984He said:"''You thought you were playing a nice joke on me, did n''t you?
2984He seemed surprised and said:"Oh, but he does n''t like that sort of thing, does he?"
2984He went in with his best,"Well, what can I do for you?"
2984He wrote, asking Howells: Will the proposed treaty protect us( and effectually) against Canadian piracy?
2984Here he paused a moment:"Mr. Clemens, will you tell me where Mr. Charles Dudley Warner lives?"
2984How can a body help it?
2984How do I account for this change of view?
2984How do you explain this?"
2984How do you run Plum Point?"
2984How many Bibles would he eat at a meal?"
2984How should he?"
2984I naturally said,"What do you mean?
2984If base music gives me wings, why should I want any other?
2984If we made this colonel a grand fellow, and gave him a wife to suit-- hey?
2984In February he addressed the Monday Evening Club on"What is Happiness?"
2984In the accompanying note he said: Say, Boss, do you want this to lighten up your old freight- train with?
2984Land sakes, Livy, what can I do?"
2984Livy screamed, then said,"Who is it?
2984Mama said,"Why do n''t you try''mind cure''?"
2984Mrs. Clemens looked at him gravely:"George,"she said,"did n''t I discharge you yesterday?"
2984Next day he asked,"Katie, did you see my pipe- cleaner?
2984Now what is it?
2984Now, young men, if any of you were in command of such a fortress, how would you proceed?''
2984On another: Have you seen any portion of the second volume?
2984One day Clemens sand to him:"Cable, why do you sit in here?
2984Rose Terry Cooke wrote: Horrid man, how did you know the way I behave in a thunderstorm?
2984Shall we think this over, or drop it as being nonsense?
2984She ran breathlessly to her aunt:"Can I have it?
2984She said,"Are you hunting for it with a club?"
2984She said,"Why, Jean, what''s the matter?
2984The inspector asks:"Now what does this elephant eat, and how much?"
2984The other letter mentioned was written to the''Christian Union'', inspired by a tale entitled,"What Ought We to Have Done?"
2984Then he asked solemnly:"And is he never serious?"
2984Then he says: Why do I offer him the play at all?
2984They shook hands; there was a pause of a moment, then Grant said, looking at him gravely:"Mr. Clemens, I am not embarrassed, are you?"
2984This is my work, and I know that I do very wrong when I feel chafed by it, but how can I be right about it?
2984Thomas Hardy said to Howells one night at dinner:"Why do n''t people understand that Mark Twain is not merely a great humorist?
2984To a woman who wrote, asking for his opinion on dogs, he said, in part: By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a"noble"animal?
2984Twain expect the public to credit this narrative to his clever brain?
2984Was hast du gesagt?"
2984What did you do with him?"
2984What do you think the General wanted to require of me?''
2984What does it mean, Susy?
2984What is the matter?"
2984What nationalities would he prefer?"
2984When we entered, and Mrs. Clemens read on Shakespeare''s grave,''Good friend, for Jesus''sake, forbear,''she started back, exclaiming,''where am I?''
2984Where did you ever see it before?"
2984Who knows?
2984Why did n''t I go with her now?"
2984Why do n''t you come here and take a foretaste of Heaven?"
2984Why should Darwin have gone to them for rest and refreshment at midnight, when spent with scientific research?
2984Why, in fine, should an English chief- justice keep Mark Twain''s books always at hand?
2984Will you return those proofs or revises to me, so that I can use the same on some future occasion?
2984You hold her, will you, till I come back?''
2984You note that position?
2984and ai n''t that a big enough majority in any town?"
2984do you realize, Mark, what a symposium it is to be?
2984presenting a theory which in later years he developed as a part of his"gospel,"and promulgated in a privately printed volume,''What is Man''?
2984where is he?
2985And you''ve filled that order, have you?
2985Come, do you mean to say that you do n''t know who the hero of that sketch is?
2985Great guns, what is the matter with it?
2985Promise what?
2985Shall you take your tomahawk with you?
2985The placard that says''Furnished rooms to let''? 2985 Was he always really tranquil within,"he says,"or was he only externally so-- for effect?
2985Was this rebuke studied and intentional? 2985 Well, what does he have that sign up for?"
2985What makes you think so?
2985What will it cost?
2985What will you give?
2985Why not leave them all to me?
2985Why, yes,said Tufts;"are n''t you?"
2985Why,he said,"have we met before?"
2985Why?
2985With pleasure-- where is she?
2985Wo n''t you please say something funny?
2985Yes, Mark, what is it?
2985--[Clemens himself had attempted to make a play out of his story"Is He Dead?"
2985America?
2985And could we now?
2985And do you think that you have added just the right smear of polish to the closing clause of the sentence?
2985And shall we see Susy?
2985And why should n''t I be?
2985And will Mark Twain never write such another?
2985At forty what do you do?
2985B.--Look here, are you charging storage?
2985But ca n''t I get it in anywhere?
2985But in the mean time what do you do?
2985But what is the use of remembering all these bitter details?
2985But what were you doing on the inside?
2985Clemens answered,"Mr. Rogers, do you think there is anything I could do for you that I would n''t do?"
2985Clemens looked at the egg portion and asked:"Boy, what was my order?"
2985DEAR PAMELA,--Will you take this$ 15& buy some candy or other trifle for yourself& Sam& his wife to remind you that we remember you?
2985Did n''t you know that?
2985Do n''t you realize that you ought not to intrude your help in a delicate art like that with your limitations?
2985Do n''t you see it''s Herr Mark Twain?"
2985Do they live in----""In this street?
2985Do you know any one who does know him?"
2985Do you know that shock?
2985Do you know that shock?
2985Do you see the big, plain house over there with the placard in the third floor window?
2985Do you think you know how to behave?"
2985Does he keep boarders?"
2985Dreaming of what?
2985Familiar?
2985Have n''t you read anything at all about Joan of Arc?
2985Have you developed any novelties of conduct since you left Mr. Murray''s,& have they been of a character to move the concern of your friends?
2985Have you ever been like that?
2985He said:"What will you complete the machine for?"
2985How do you reckon he accomplished that miracle?
2985How in the world did you ever come to locate there?"
2985I sha''n''t say a word against it, but she will find it a difficult& disheartening job,& meanwhile what is to become of that miraculous girl?
2985I wonder if it is?
2985If you should be passing this way to- morrow will you look in and change hats?
2985Introducing him, President Frank Lawrence said:"What name is there in literature that can be likened to his?
2985Is n''t that valuable?
2985Is there some way, honest or otherwise, by which you can get a copy of Mayo''s play,"Pudd''nhead Wilson,"for me?
2985It would be jolly good if some one should succeed in making a play out of"Is He Dead?"
2985Italy?
2985Later he wrote:"Put''Is He Dead?''
2985My business brothers?
2985Now the old Duke of Backofenhofenschwartz not the present Duke, but the last but one, he----""Does he live over the sausage- shop in the cellar?"
2985Now, do n''t you see what a world of confidence that must necessarily breed?
2985One of them said, hesitatingly:"Are you Mr. Mark Twain?"
2985Or at least why was n''t something creditable created in place of it?
2985Semi- acquaintances said,"Ah, yes, Kornerstrasse"; acquaintances said,"Dear me, do you like it?"
2985Shrunk how?
2985Since I wrote my Bible--[The"Gospel,"What is Man?]
2985That they are in London, the metropolis of the world, Post- office District, N. W.?
2985The coachman sent in for him at 9, but he said,"Oh, nonsense!--leave glories& grandeurs like these?
2985The door was ajar and he heard Mrs. Clemens say:"Youth, do n''t you think it will be a little embarrassing for him, your being in bed?"
2985To Twichell Clemens wrote: Joe, do you know the Irish gentleman& the Irish lady, the Scotch gentleman& the Scotch lady?
2985To her sister she wrote: Do you think we can live through the first going into the house in Hartford?
2985Venice?
2985Was n''t it a rattling good comedy situation?
2985Well, then, what is he to do?
2985What is biography?
2985What is it that we want in a novel?
2985What is romance?
2985What night will you come down& smoke?
2985What other humorist could have refrained from hinting, at least, the inference suggested by the obvious"Gas Works"?
2985What should we do and how should we feel if we had no bright prospects before us, and yet how many people are situated in that way?
2985What they want----""The nobility?
2985When the Duke first moved in here he----""Does he live in this street?"
2985When you get an exasperating letter what happens?
2985Where was your remedy?
2985Who is his nearest friend?"
2985Who is it?"
2985Who is it?"
2985Who might this late comer be?
2985Whose heart is broken by this murder?
2985Why was the human race created?
2985Why, Tufts, do n''t you know that the soldiers in the theater are the same old soldiers marching around and around?
2985Will anybody contend that a man can say to such masterful anger as that, Go, and be obeyed?
2985Will healing ever come, or life have value again?
2985Will that answer?
2985With a rent- roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year?
2985Wo n''t you talk awhile?
2985Yes, he is here; and the question is not-- as it has been heretofore during a thousand ages-- What shall we do with him?
2985Yes, you know that, and confess it-- but what were you to do?
2985have you noticed that?
2985how have you written this miracle?
2985or shall I send it to the hotel?
2985the tropics?
2982Ah,said Clemens, as he mopped his face,"do you know that little devil waded all the way across?"
2982Are you Horace Bigsby''s cub?
2982But do you realize, ma''am, how tired and hungry we are? 2982 Can he do it again?"
2982Did it knock him down?
2982Did you do that?
2982Did you ever do any steering?
2982Did you follow it up? 2982 Did you pound him much-- that is, severely?"
2982Do n''t I deserve one yet?
2982Do you chew?
2982Do you drink?
2982Do you gamble?
2982Do you know the Bowen boys?
2982Do you swear?
2982Do you use terbacker?
2982Does it?
2982Hard?
2982Here, where are you heading for now?
2982Here, why did n''t you tell me we had got to land at that plantation?
2982Here,he would shout,"where are you going now?
2982How big was it, Uncle Ned?
2982How do you follow a hall at home in the dark? 2982 How far off was it?"
2982How much do you think it ought to be, Mark?
2982How on earth am I ever going to learn it, then?
2982How would you like a young man to learn the river?
2982Is n''t that a guitar over there?
2982Nobody could have done it better; and did you see how those cats got out of there? 2982 Pounded him?"
2982Sam said,''Dan, did you know, when you invited me to make that speech, that those fellows were going to give me a bogus pipe?'' 2982 Steve, what is that d-- d noise?"
2982Tell us, Mark, why are you like the Pacific Ocean?
2982Very well, I''ll try it; but, after I have learned it, can I depend on it? 2982 Well,"he sand,"why am I like the Pacific Ocean?"
2982What are you reading, Sam?
2982What did you do?
2982What do you charge?
2982What in nation are you steerin''at, anyway? 2982 What is your name?"
2982What makes you pull your words that way?
2982What will you have, Sam?
2982What with?
2982What''s the matter, Sam? 2982 Who did that?"
2982Why did n''t you mention it before? 2982 Why do n''t you get up and light it yourself?"
2982Why, Sammy, what in the world has happened?
2982Yes, sir, it is; what of it?
298223--and a lawyer?
2982A gentleman standing on the pavement said to my wife,"Miss, do you go by this stage?"
2982A tall, bony woman came to the door:"You''re secesh, ai n''t you?"
2982And what is a man without energy?
2982At first he looked at the culprit thoughtfully, then he made some inquiries:"Did you strike him first?"
2982Can not the''Californian''afford to keep Mark all to itself?
2982Did you do anything further?"
2982Do n''t you hear me?
2982Do n''t you know that I have expended money in this country but have made none myself?
2982Do n''t you know that I have never held in my hands a gold or silver bar that belonged to me?
2982Do n''t you know that I have only talked, as yet, but proved nothing?
2982Do n''t you know that it''s all talk and no cider so far?
2982Do n''t you know that undemonstrated human calculations wo n''t do to bet on?
2982Do you hear?"
2982Give him a good sound thrashing; do you hear?
2982Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways?
2982Have n''t you got a bite for us to eat?"
2982He opened on me after this fashion:"How much water did we have in the middle crossing at Hole- in- The- Wall, trip before last?"
2982His chief was a constant menace at such moments: One day he turned on me suddenly with this settler:"What is the shape of Walnut Bend?"
2982His mother said:"What''s the matter, Sammy; are you sick?"
2982How could he, with a fortune so plainly in view?
2982How did you ever think of it?"
2982How do you reckon I can remember such a mess as that?"
2982I gave her a conundrum, thus:"My dear madam, why ought your hand to retain its present grace and beauty always?
2982If they want letters from here-- who''ll run from morning till night collecting material cheaper?
2982It always snows here, I expect"; and the final heart- sick line,"Do n''t you suppose they have pretty much quit writing at home?"
2982It may have materialized out of the unseen-- who knows?
2982Klinefelter turned to Sam:"Did n''t you hear him?"
2982L. C.''Which was?
2982Maguire, why Will you thus skyugle?
2982Now is n''t she the devil?
2982One day, soon after, he said to me:"''Steve, do you know that I think that that bogus pipe smokes about as well as the good one?''"
2982Sam said:"What''s that, Steve?"
2982Sam;"he said,"what do they mean by that?"
2982That is to say, is n''t she a right smart little woman?
2982The company rose, drank the toast in serious silence; then Goodman said:"Of course, Artemus, it''s all right, but why did you give us Upper Canada?"
2982W- h- a- r- r''s my g- o- l- den arm?"
2982W- h- a- r- r''s my golden arm?
2982What a child he always was-- always, to the very end?
2982What are you going to do?"
2982What did it matter to him?
2982What name do you want to use''Josh''?"
2982What noise?
2982What the devil does a man want with any more feet when he owns in the invincible bomb- proof"Monitor"?
2982What was the greatest feature in Napoleon''s character?
2982When the children came for eggs he would say:"Your hens wo n''t lay, eh?
2982Where is it Orion''s going to?
2982Why curse and swear, And rip and tear The innocent McDougal?
2982Will it keep the same form, and not go fooling around?"
2982Wo n''t you please stop it?
2982You could n''t possibly teach music with a company of raw recruits drilling overhead-- now, could you?
2982You think that picture looks old?
2982You will continue upon the water for some time yet; you will not retire finally until ten years from now.... What is your brother''s age?
2982and in pursuit of an office?
2982he asked--"pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade?"
2982he said, triumphantly;"you know dose vord?"
19987Afraid I would n''t live?
19987And the next greatest?
19987Are you going down to see what it is he wants now?
19987Are you going down to see?
19987But where do you place yourself, then?
19987Did n''t you fall overboard?
19987How do you mean?
19987How many?
19987I? 19987 If you forgot the watch, mamma, would that be a little thing?"
19987Is he? 19987 Mamma, what is it all for?"
19987Mamma, what is''_ little_ things''?
19987The fourth what?
19987Then why did you sell him?
19987Very well, then you''ve told it, we''ll say, seventy or eighty times since it happened?
19987Was it a burglar, do you think?
19987Was n''t there a new patent machine aboard, and did n''t they throw it over to save you?
19987Wellmamma said"what now, I wonder?"
19987Well, what of it? 19987 What man?"
19987What shall we do then then?
19987Who were the others?
19987Why?
19987Ai n''t it best to say nothing, and let on that we did n''t think?"
19987Ai n''t that the one that bilked the house, last week, out of ten cents?"
19987Anything peculiar about it?"
19987Apparently you have not heard of him?"
19987Are you a professional buccaneer?
19987Are you always cheerful?
19987Are_ you_?
19987As Susy said,"What is it all for?"
19987At last X''s friend remarked,"X, does it occur to you that we are_ outside the diocese_?"
19987Carleton rose and said brusquely and aggressively,"Well, what can I do for you?"
19987Could the fault have been with me?
19987Did I forget that I was a Lambton?
19987Did I lose courage when I saw those great men up there whom I was going to describe in such a strange fashion?
19987Did n''t that attract any attention?"
19987Did you suppose it was a Sunday- school superintendent?"
19987Do I want any more?
19987Do n''t you like Uncle Theodore Crane?"
19987Do you remember Charles the First?--and his broad slouch with the plume in it?
19987Dr. Burton swung his leonine head around, focussed me with his eye, and said:"When was it that this happened?"
19987Finally, in the summing up, the mother named over the list and asked:"Which one do you think it ought to be, Susy?"
19987For instance, if the magician asked,"What do you see?"
19987Have you told it several times since?"
19987He brought the cup to me and asked impressively,"Mr. Clemens, how far is it from the front door to the upper gate?"
19987He did n''t what?"
19987He had inquired of the shopman--"Who is this Davis?"
19987He mused a moment or two and then said,"I wonder we did n''t meet in Washington in 1867; you were there at that time, were n''t you?"
19987He paused, glanced up at me and said, with his eyes,"Are you friendly?"
19987He said,"Three dollars?
19987He said,"Were n''t you a midshipman once, sir, in the old''Lancaster''?"
19987He said:"Mr. Clemens, what are we going to do?
19987He said:"Who did that?"
19987He seemed very much surprised, and said,"Take him again?
19987Her mother asked:"Is she crying hard?"
19987Her mother was surprised, and also disappointed, and said:"Why, Susy, does n''t it please you?
19987His face was sad, before, and troubled; but it lit up gladly now, and he answered,"Yes-- have you seen him?"
19987How do you come to know about it?"
19987How do you explain it?
19987How do you explain this kind of conduct?"
19987How do you justify it?"
19987How far off was that bird?"
19987How is the size of calamities measured?
19987How many can you run with an outlay like that?"
19987How many caroms do you think you can make out of that layout?"
19987How many times a year do you think you have told it?"
19987How much of this tale of yours is embroidery?"
19987How often can he do that?"
19987I asked my mother about this, in her old age-- she was in her 88th year-- and said:"I suppose that during all that time you were uneasy about me?"
19987I asked,"How did you know, you little rascals?"
19987I have to have him back again because the man wants him; do n''t you see that I have n''t any choice in the matter?
19987I was waiting for her to ask"Who did that?"
19987I wonder how he felt?
19987If their superiors had carved each other well, the public would have asked, Where were the police?
19987Is it?''
19987Is n''t it fine?"
19987It is plain that the author of the second one stole the first one, is n''t it?"
19987It is too late to telephone-- we could n''t get any cigars out from town-- what can we do?
19987Mrs. Clemens opened the debate:"What was it?"
19987My wife said,"What do you suppose he is after now?"
19987Now what do you reckon it was?
19987Only three dollars?
19987Really always cheerful?"
19987She said, a little restively,"Well, what is the use of a burglar- alarm for us?"
19987She said,"You wore it in church with that red Scotch plaid outside and glaring?
19987She said:"He did n''t?
19987She was awed and impressed, and said:"Wild ones, mamma?"
19987She would say,"Now, Marse Steve, Marse Steve, ca n''t you behave yourself?"
19987Stevenson had begun the matter with this question:"Can you name the American author whose fame and acceptance stretch widest in the States?"
19987Susy studied, shrank from her duty, and asked:"Which do you think, mamma?"
19987That question was,"With whom originated the idea of the march to the sea?
19987That was the old man''s chance, and he said with fervency"Why good land, are n''t you going to stop to breakfast?"
19987The General said,"What do you ask for him?"
19987The crux of the matter is that you did n''t own the dog-- can''t you see that?
19987The truth is they will know that I acted innocently, because they are rational people; but what of that?
19987Then he came back, and said,"What is the prize for the ten- strike?"
19987There must be some way to tell the great ones from the small ones; what is the law of these proportions?
19987There was a moment''s silence, then Sandy spoke up with excited interest and said--"Marse Sam, has you ever seen a smoked herring?"
19987There-- don''t you see something?
19987This look was usually followed with"Clara"or"Susy what do you mean by this?
19987Was it Grant''s, or was it Sherman''s idea?"
19987Were you of our crew?"
19987What could have been the matter with that house?
19987What do you suppose he wants?"
19987What is ambition?
19987What is that?"
19987What is the bill?"
19987What is the rule?
19987What is the special peculiarity of smoked herrings?"
19987What is your name?"
19987What should he cable in reply?
19987What, are you going?
19987When I was seven or eight, or ten, or twelve years old-- along there-- a neighbor said to her,"Do you ever believe anything that that boy says?"
19987When people asked me,"How_ can_ you tell what he is willing you to do?"
19987When the article"What ought he to have done?"
19987Where now is Billy Rice?
19987Who is it that didn''t?--and what is it that he did n''t?"
19987Who was the other girl?"
19987Who''s doubting it?"
19987Why is it that I have intruded into this turmoil and manifested a desire to get our orthography purged of its asininities?
19987Why, how could I talk when he was talking?
19987Why?
19987Why?"
19987Wo n''t you please sign your name?"
19987Wo n''t you take me out of my distress and sign your name to it?
19987You understand?
19987[ 19] Can this be correct?
19987_ Was hast du gesagt?_"But she said the same words over again, and in the same decided way.
19987and his body clothed in velvet doublet with lace sleeves, and his legs in leather, with long rapier at his side and his spurs on his heels?
19987and his slender, tall figure?
19987do you want to come to the bath- room with me?"
19987impostors, were they?
2986A vocabulary, then, is sometimes a handicap?
2986But what in hell is an oesophagus? 2986 Do you believe the things you say?"
2986How long did you keep your pilot- memory?
2986How many?
2986I suppose you still remember some of the river?
2986Man adapted to the earth?
2986Oh yes, that is it, I thought it was--(naming a name which has escaped me) wo n''t you write it down for me?
2986Reporters?
2986Still you-- are going to publish it, are you not?
2986Was n''t that the courteous thing to do?
2986What is the one- third extra-- the odd melon-- the same?
2986What would you do?
2986What''s an oesophagus, a bird?
2986What''s it all mean, anyway?
2986Why in nation did you offer him your cue?
2986A critic with a sense of humor asked:"Please excuse seeming impertinence, but were you ever adjudged insane?
2986Am I right?
2986And ignorantly& unthinkingly?
2986And what is the appendix for?
2986Are our morals so inadequate that we have to borrow of niggers?"
2986Are the Blue and the Gray one to- day?
2986Are there in Sir Walter''s novels passages done in good English--English which is neither slovenly nor involved?
2986Are there passages which burn with real fire-- not punk, fox- fire, make- believe?
2986Are there passages whose English is not poor& thin& commonplace, but is of a quality above that?
2986Are you sure it was clams?
2986As concerns the man who has gone unpunished eleven million years, is it your belief that in life he did his duty by his microbes?
2986Better lo''ed ye canna be, Will ye no come back again?
2986Blasphemy?
2986But what of that?
2986By searching?
2986CCXLVIII"WHAT IS MAN?"
2986CCXXVI"WAS IT HEAVEN?
2986Can you read him and keep your respect for him?
2986Clara, dear, after the luncheon-- I hate to put this on you-- but could you do two or three little shopping- errands for me?
2986Could she feel the wrinkles in my hand through her hair?
2986Could you lend an admirer$ 1.50 to buy a hymn- book with?
2986Did he know how to write English,& did n''t do it because he did n''t want to?
2986Did you get wet?
2986Did you want to saddle that disaster upon us for life?"
2986Do n''t you care more about the wretchedness of others than anything that happens to you?''
2986Do serenity and peace brood over you after you have done such a thing?
2986Does he ever chain the reader''s interest& make him reluctant to lay the book down?
2986Does he keep him in mind years and years and go on contriving miseries for him?
2986Does man regard the difference?
2986Does one build a boarding- house for the sake of the boarding- house itself or for the sake of the boarders?
2986For 6 days now my story in the Christmas Harper''s"Was it Heaven?
2986Goodness, who is there I have n''t known?
2986Has he funny characters that are funny, and humorous passages that are humorous?
2986Has he heroes& heroines who are not cads and cadesses?
2986Has he heroes& heroines whom the reader admires-- admires and knows why?
2986Has he paused& taken thought?
2986Has he personages whose acts& talk correspond with their characters as described by him?
2986He asked:"Have you heard the news about San Francisco?"
2986He did not suspect what had happened until he heard one of the daughters ask:"Katie, is it true?
2986He probably referred to the Monday Evening Club essay,"What Is Happiness?"
2986He said:"Is it your idea, then, that man is perfectly adapted to the conditions of this planet?"
2986He wished to receive the full value( who does not?)
2986Helen Keller wrote: And you are seventy years old?
2986Hereafter if you must write such things wo n''t you please be so kind as to label them?
2986How could that impress Adam?
2986How could you do it?
2986How much money does the devil give you for arraigning Christianity and missionary causes?"
2986Howells, startled for a moment, whispered:"What in the world did he wear that white suit for?"
2986I was greatly pleased and asked:"Who gets the extra one?"
2986II L. Is it true the human race thinks the universe was created for its convenience?
2986If he ca n''t get renewals of his bric- a- brac in the next world what will he look like?
2986If we are going to be gay in spirit, why be clad in funeral garments?
2986If you can play that way left- handed what could you do right- handed?''
2986Interest?
2986Is it a joke or am I an ignoramus?"
2986Is it one prayer?
2986Is the Rebellion ended and forgotten?
2986L. Am I not, to a man, as is a billion solar systems to a grain of sand?
2986L. And the air?
2986L. Do you know what a microbe is?
2986L. Does he forget him?
2986L. Employs himself with more important matters?
2986L. Has she been out to- day?
2986L. He commits depredations upon your blood?
2986L. How many men are there?
2986L. In ten days the aggregate reaches what?
2986L. In that costume?
2986L. Now then, according to man''s own reasoning, what is man for?
2986L. Then what?
2986L. Then why punish him?
2986L. To what intent are these uncountable microbes introduced into the human race?
2986L. What am I to man?
2986L. What is he for?
2986L. What is the sea for?
2986L. When was this?
2986L. Who is it?
2986L. Why?
2986L. Why?
2986L. You took a cab both ways?
2986Man kills the microbes when he can?
2986May I send you the constitution& laws of the club?
2986Now then, with this common- sense light to aid your perceptions, what are the air, the land, and the ocean for?
2986Now, will that do you?"
2986OR HELL?"
2986Oh, Katie, is it true?"
2986Once, writing to Jean, he asked: What is your favorite piece of music, dear?
2986One paper celebrated him in verse: Who killed Croker?
2986Opening one of the papers, a telegram, he read:"In which one of your works can we find the definition of a gentleman?"
2986Or a gullet?
2986Or is it a gull?
2986Or is the report exaggerated, like that of your death?
2986Out of this grew the story,"Was it Heaven?
2986Put a trap like that into the midst of a tragical story?
2986Reverence for what-- for whom?
2986Said Clemens: Do you notice?
2986Shall we ever laugh again?
2986She kept her contract to the letter; but when she rose to go she said, in a voice of deepest reverence:"May I kiss your hand?"
2986She said,"What is the name of your sweet sister?"
2986She was determined to go out again, but---- L. How did you know she was out?
2986Speaking as a member of it, what do you think the other animals are for?
2986The Christmas number of Harper''s Magazine for 1902 contained the story,"Was it Heaven?
2986The two sums aggregate- what?
2986Then he broke out:"Why ca n''t a man die when he''s had his tragedy?
2986Then he was likely to say:"Why did n''t you stop me?
2986Then if Satan should come, he would slap him on the shoulder and say,''Why, Satan, how do you do?
2986Then who is it, what is it, that they worship?
2986Then:"What does he call it?"
2986To Twichell he wrote, playfully but sincerely: Am I honest?
2986Was it Grady who killed himself trying to do all the dining and speeching?
2986What are deciduous flowers, and do they always"bloom in the fall, tra la"?
2986What are his tonsils for?
2986What are you going to do, you poor soul?
2986What are your plans for getting left, or shall you trust to inspiration?
2986What is Jean doing?
2986What is his beard for?
2986What is it?
2986What is there to say?
2986What more could be said of any one?
2986What would it be for the whole human population?
2986When I brought him the prints, a few days later, he expressed pleasure and asked,"Why did n''t you make more?"
2986When did larches begin to flame, and who set out the pomegranates in that canyon?
2986When shall I come?
2986When the dictation ended he said:"Have you any special place to lunch to- day?"
2986When we reached the entrance of the dining- room he said:"Is n''t there another entrance to this place?"
2986Who is to decide what ought to command my reverence-- my neighbor or I?
2986Who lit the lilacs, and which end up do they hang?
2986Who so poor in his ambitions as to consent to be God on those terms?
2986Why did n''t you take thirteen?"
2986Why did you let me go on making a jackass of myself when you could have saved me?"
2986Why does he affront me with the fancy that I interest Myself in trivialities-- like men and microbes?
2986Why should not China be free from the foreigners, who are only making trouble on her soil?
2986Why, Clara, are n''t you going to your lesson?
2986Will Kanawha be sailing after that& can I go as Sunday- school superintendent at half rate?
2986Will ye no come back again?
2986Wo n''t you come back and do that again?"
2986Would you like me to come out there and cry?
2986Writing to MacAlister, Clemens said: Florentine sunshine?
2986You say,"Is this it?--this?
2986after all this talk and fuss of a thousand generations of travelers who have crossed this frontier& looked about them& told what they saw& felt?
2986can a body do it to- day?
2986or Hell?"
2986or Hell?"
2986or Hell?"
2987But what has become of Caesar''s gold, Brother, big brother?
2987But you read it?
2987Could a man live on a world so small as that?
2987Dear child, do n''t you want to run out and play a while? 2987 Does He send all of them, mama?"
2987How about a disguise?
2987How about dematerialization?
2987How big is he?
2987How can you be so positive?
2987How do you mean, m''lord?
2987How long have you been with Barnum and Bailey?
2987How many more are there?
2987Is it He that sends them?
2987Is n''t it strange?
2987Is there any evidence that he did n''t?
2987Oh, how high is Caesar''s house, Brother, big brother?
2987Strange? 2987 Suppose you divide the drop?"
2987Suppose you remove a drop of it? 2987 Suppose you separate the hydrogen and the oxygen?"
2987Tell me, Franklin[ a microbe of great learning], is the ocean an individual, an animal, a creature?
2987The fourth what?
2987The times are bad and the world is old--Who knows the where of the Caesar''s gold? 2987 Then it does not matter where the truth, as you call it, comes from?"
2987Then water-- any water- is an individual?
2987Then you make your own Bible?
2987What do you think it was, mama?
2987What for?
2987What for?
2987What is your little bonfire of Vesuvius to this?
2987What manner of men are these?
2987What reason, mama?
2987Where are the rest of the Innocents?
2987Where are you going to put him?
2987Where is the Ascot Cup?
2987Where is the elephant?
2987Who first thought of it like that, mama? 2987 Who taught you so, mama?"
2987Why do you think so?
2987Would you have it in the schools, then?
2987Yes, the wee creatures that inhabit the bodies of us germs and feed upon us, and rot us with disease: Ah, what could they have been created for? 2987 You admitted its literary art?"
2987APPENDIX K A SUBSTITUTE FOR RULOFF HAVE WE A SIDNEY CARTON AMONG US?
2987After a pause:"Did He make the roof fall in on the stranger that was trying to save the crippled old woman from the fire, mama?"
2987Am I saying that the pulpit does not do its share toward disseminating the marrow, the meat of the gospel of Christ?
2987Am I to go away and let them have peace and quiet for a year and a half, and then come back and only lecture them twice?
2987And when the man draws them well why do they stir my admiration?
2987And whence and whither?"
2987Anything left of Hoffman?"
2987Are the two things identical?
2987Are you?"
2987As we drove into the lane that led to the Stormfield entrance, he said:"Can we see where you have built your billiard- room?"
2987Bright?
2987But to cease teaching and go back to the beginning again, was it not pitiable-- that spectacle?
2987But what if it produce that in spite of you?
2987CCLXXVII"IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?"
2987Ca n''t you give me enough of the hypnotic injunction to put an end to me?"
2987Clemens said:"Trowbridge, are you still alive?
2987Clemens said:"What is it?"
2987Clemens sand:"Is that so?
2987Clemens?"
2987DEAR CHAMP CLARK,--Is the new copyright law acceptable to me?
2987DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD?
2987Did He give Billy Norris the typhus?"
2987Did I know jean''s value?
2987Did it?
2987Do they even resemble each other?
2987Do you admire the race(& consequently yourself)?
2987Do you comprehend?
2987Do you remember?
2987Do you think I wrote the second one to give that man pleasure?
2987Do you think you could teach it arithmetic?"
2987Do you want to bring the lightning?"
2987Does he take an oath or make a promise of any sort?--or does n''t he leave himself entirely free?
2987Does this sound like shouting?
2987Had we no moral duty to perform?
2987Have n''t I told you so, over and over again?"
2987Have you forgotten early twitterings of your own?
2987He commended man to multiply& replenish- what?
2987He said, very gently:"How beautiful it all is?
2987He says:"A billion, that is a million millions,[??
2987He says:"A billion, that is a million millions,[??
2987How can you ask such a thing of me?
2987How does a soul like that stay in a carcass without getting mixed with the secretions and sweated out through the pores?
2987Howells, did you write me day- before- day- before yesterday or did I dream it?
2987I bent down over her and patted her cheek and said:"I do n''t seem to remember your name; what is it?"
2987I noticed that Jean was listening anxiously, and when I finished she said:"Is that a true story?"
2987I said,"How do you account for the changed attitude toward these things?
2987I said,''Jean, is this you trying to let me know you have found the others?''
2987I suppose I ought to defend my character, but how can I defend it?
2987I was ashamed again, and confessed it; then:"How old are you, dear?"
2987I was naturally astonished, and immediately wrote: I did fall and skin my shin at five o''clock yesterday afternoon, but how did you find it out?
2987If a life be offered up on the gallows to atone for the murder Ruloff did, will that suffice?
2987If so is she extinct and can never attend a third?
2987In a dictation following his return, Mark Twain said: Who began it?
2987Is it a regular army?
2987Is it an army of volunteers who have enlisted for the war, and may righteously be shot if they leave before the war is finished?
2987Is it less humiliating to dance to the lash of one master than another?
2987Is it possible for human wickedness to invent a doctrine more infernal and poisonous than this?
2987Is n''t it curious?
2987Is n''t it interesting?
2987Is n''t that a brewery?"
2987Is n''t that a brewery?"
2987Is that it?"
2987Is that true, mother--because if it is true why did Mr. Hollister laugh at it?"
2987Is there imaginable a baser servitude than it imposes?
2987Is what is left an individual?"
2987It only costs the public a dollar apiece, and if they ca n''t stand it what do they stay here for?
2987It was not wrong?
2987MR. MARK TWAIN-- DEAR SIR,--Will you start now, without any unnecessary delay?
2987Mark Twain''s own book on the subject--''Is Shakespeare Dead?''
2987Must he prove that he is sound in any way, mind or body?
2987Must he prove that he knows anything-- is capable of anything-- whatever?
2987Not much of it all is left to me, but I remember Howells saying,"Did it ever occur to you that the newspapers abolished hell?
2987Now you all know all these things yourself, do n''t you?
2987Now, therefore, why should I withhold it?
2987OR HELL?
2987Of course you can save money by denying yourself all these vicious little enjoyments for fifty years; but then what can you do with it?
2987Once, half roused, he looked at me searchingly and asked:"Is n''t there something I can resign and be out of all this?
2987One day she said:"Mama, why is there so much pain and sorrow and suffering?
2987Ought we to allow this war to begin?
2987Replying to the question( put to himself),"Are you pleased with the marriage?"
2987Says I,''Hold on there, Evangeline, what are you going to do with them?''
2987Shall I ever be cheerful again, happy again?
2987Shall you also say that it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter and become a mouthing lunatic besides?
2987Shall you say the best good of the country demands allegiance to party?
2987She?
2987Take a man like Sir Oliver Lodge, and what secret of Nature can be hidden from him?
2987That''s closed in, is n''t it, for the winter?
2987The autumn splendors passed you by?
2987The letter itself consisted merely of a line, which said: Wo n''t you give your friends, the missionaries, a good mark for this?
2987The property has got to fall to some heir, and why not the United States?
2987The question is, if she attends two doe luncheons in succession is she a doe- doe?
2987The sensational head- lines in a morning paper,"Is Mark Twain a Plagiarist?"
2987There was such a mingling of yells and calls and questions, such as,"Have you brought the jumping Frog with you?"
2987They give us pain, they make our lives miserable, they murder us-- and where is the use of it all, where the wisdom?
2987To Howells, on the same day, he wrote: Wo n''t you& Mrs. Howells& Mildred come& give us as many days as you can spare& examine John''s triumph?
2987Toward the evening of the first day, when it grew dark outside, he asked:"How long have we been on this voyage?"
2987U. E. WAS IT HEAVEN?
2987U. E. WHY NOT ABOLISH IT?
2987Very well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a clean and withered old age?
2987Very well, then- what ought we to do?
2987WHAT IS MAN?
2987WHICH WAS WHICH?
2987Was it R. U. Johnson?
2987Was it an illusion?
2987Was it both together?
2987Was it not our duty to administer a rebuke to this selfish and heartless Family?
2987Was it not our duty to stop it, in the name of right and righteousness?
2987Was it the Authors''League?
2987Was it to discipline the church?"
2987Was it to discipline the hog, mama?"
2987Was it you?"
2987Was that right?"
2987Well, is it?
2987Well, suppose you combine them again, but in a new way: make the proportions equal-- one part oxygen to one of hydrogen?"
2987Well, they have invented a heaven, out of their own heads, all by themselves; guess what it is like?
2987What do you take me for?
2987What is it all for?"
2987What is it you want?"
2987What is the essential difference between a lifelong democrat and any other kind of lifelong slave?
2987What is the process when a voter joins a party?
2987What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you?
2987What kind of a disease is that?
2987What mother knows not that?
2987What ship is that?
2987What ship is that?"
2987What slave is so degraded as the slave that is proud that he is a slave?
2987What use can you put it to?
2987What would become of me if he should disintegrate?
2987What, sir, would the people of this earth be without woman?
2987When he had read a number of these he said:"Well, why does He do it then?
2987Where was ever a sermon preached that could make filial ingratitude so hateful to men as the sinful play of"King Lear"?
2987Why do I respect my own?
2987Why do we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived?
2987Why does He give Himself the trouble?"
2987Why should his life be taken away for their sake, when he was n''t doing anything?"
2987Why should they have declined?
2987Will you remember that?
2987You do not think me wrong?
2987You notice that?
2987You notice the stately General standing there with his hand resting upon the muzzle of a cannon?
2987and when England''s Prime Minister- Campbell- Bannerman-- came forward some one shouted,"What about the House of Lords?"
2987impostors, were they?
2987said I;"who were the others?"
298823--and a lawyer?
2988APPENDIX K A SUBSTITUTE FOR RULOFF HAVE WE A SIDNEY CARTON AMONG US?
2988Am I right?
2988Am I saying that the pulpit does not do its share toward disseminating the marrow, the meat of the gospel of Christ?
2988Am I to go away and let them have peace and quiet for a year and a half, and then come back and only lecture them twice?
2988America?
2988And could we now?
2988And do you think that you have added just the right smear of polish to the closing clause of the sentence?
2988And ignorantly& unthinkingly?
2988And shall we see Susy?
2988And what is a man without energy?
2988And what is the appendix for?
2988And what the flavor can surpass Of sugar, spirit, lemons?
2988And when the man draws them well why do they stir my admiration?
2988And why should it be otherwise?
2988And why should n''t I be?
2988And will Mark Twain never write such another?
2988Anything left of Hoffman? ” “ No, ” I said.
2988Are the Blue and the Gray one to- day?
2988Are the two things identical?
2988Are there in Sir Walter''s novels passages done in good English--English which is neither slovenly nor involved?
2988Are there passages which burn with real fire-- not punk, fox- fire, make- believe?
2988Are there passages whose English is not poor& thin& commonplace, but is of a quality above that?
2988Are you sure it was clams?
2988Are you? ” I did not pursue the subject, and since then I have not traveled on my''nom de guerre''enough to hurt.
2988Are you? ” That broke the ice.
2988As concerns the man who has gone unpunished eleven million years, is it your belief that in life he did his duty by his microbes?
2988At first he looked at the culprit thoughtfully, then he made some inquiries: “ Did you strike him first? ” Captain Klinefelter asked.
2988At forty what do you do?
2988B.--Look here, are you charging storage?
2988Better lo''ed ye canna be, Will ye no come back again?
2988Blasphemy?
2988Bright?
2988But I have n''t lost my temper, and I''ve made Livy lie down most of the time; could anybody make her lie down all the time?
2988But ca n''t I get it in anywhere?
2988But in the mean time what do you do?
2988But to cease teaching and go back to the beginning again, was it not pitiable-- that spectacle?
2988But what if it produce that in spite of you?
2988But what is the use of remembering all these bitter details?
2988But what of that?
2988But what were you doing on the inside?
2988By searching?
2988By the way, third''s a lucky number for length of days, is n''t it?
2988Ca n''t you tell her it always makes you sick to go home late at night or something like that?
2988Can I support such grief as this?
2988Can not the''Californian''afford to keep Mark all to itself?
2988Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?
2988Can you conceive of a man''s getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation?
2988Can you read him and keep your respect for him?
2988Clara, dear, after the luncheon-- I hate to put this on you-- but could you do two or three little shopping- errands for me?
2988Clemens said: “ Trowbridge, are you still alive?
2988Clemens said: “ What is it? ” Wilberforce impressively answered: “ It is the Holy Grail. ” Clemens naturally started with surprise.
2988Clemens, I am not embarrassed, are you? ” So he remembered that first, long- ago meeting.
2988Clemens, will you tell me where Mr. Charles Dudley Warner lives? ” This was the chance!
2988Continuing he said: Do you know the prettiest fancy and the neatest that ever shot through Harte''s brain?
2988Could she feel the wrinkles in my hand through her hair?
2988Could you lend an admirer$ 1.50 to buy a hymn- book with?
2988Curious, but did n''t Florence want a Cromwell?
2988DEAR CHAMP CLARK,--Is the new copyright law acceptable to me?
2988DEAR PAMELA,--Will you take this$ 15& buy some candy or other trifle for yourself& Sam& his wife to remind you that we remember you?
2988DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD?
2988Did I ever tell you the plot of it?
2988Did I know jean''s value?
2988Did he know how to write English,& did n''t do it because he did n''t want to?
2988Did it?
2988Did n''t you know that?
2988Did you get that key to- day?''
2988Did you get wet?
2988Did you have any bets on us?
2988Did you want to saddle that disaster upon us for life? ” He was blowing off steam, and I knew it and encouraged it.
2988Do n''t you care more about the wretchedness of others than anything that happens to you?''
2988Do n''t you feel well? ” Jean said that she had a little stomack- ache, and so thought she would lie down.
2988Do n''t you hear me?
2988Do n''t you know that I have expended money in this country but have made none myself?
2988Do n''t you know that I have never held in my hands a gold or silver bar that belonged to me?
2988Do n''t you know that I have only talked, as yet, but proved nothing?
2988Do n''t you know that it''s all talk and no cider so far?
2988Do n''t you know that undemonstrated human calculations wo n''t do to bet on?
2988Do n''t you know they are calling for you? ” They remained in Keokuk a week, and Susy starts to tell something of their visit there.
2988Do n''t you realize that you ought not to intrude your help in a delicate art like that with your limitations?
2988Do serenity and peace brood over you after you have done such a thing?
2988Do they even resemble each other?
2988Do they live in---- ” “ In this street?
2988Do you admire the race(& consequently yourself)?
2988Do you hear? ” The slim, youthful person trembled a good deal, and said: “ I would, Mr. Clemens, I would indeed, sir, if I could.
2988Do you know any one who does know him? ” “ Yes, I know his most intimate friend. ” “ Then he is the man for you to approach.
2988Do you know that shock?
2988Do you know that shock?
2988Do you remember?
2988Do you see the big, plain house over there with the placard in the third floor window?
2988Do you suppose you could get me a key that would fit my trunk?''
2988Do you think I wrote the second one to give that man pleasure?
2988Do you think you could teach it arithmetic? ” Joy was uncertain.
2988Do you want to bring the lightning? ” “ You know the lightning did come last week, mama, and struck the new church, and burnt it down.
2988Does he ever chain the reader''s interest& make him reluctant to lay the book down?
2988Does he keep boarders? ” “ What an idea!
2988Does he keep him in mind years and years and go on contriving miseries for him?
2988Does he take an oath or make a promise of any sort?--or does n''t he leave himself entirely free?
2988Does man regard the difference?
2988Does one build a boarding- house for the sake of the boarding- house itself or for the sake of the boarders?
2988Does this sound like shouting?
2988Does your wife give you rats, like that, when you go a little one- sided?
2988Dreaming of what?
2988Familiar?
2988For 6 days now my story in the Christmas Harper''s “ Was it Heaven?
2988Further along he refers to one of his reforms: Smoke?
2988Give him a good sound thrashing; do you hear?
2988Goodness, who is there I have n''t known?
2988Had we no moral duty to perform?
2988Has he funny characters that are funny, and humorous passages that are humorous?
2988Has he heroes& heroines who are not cads and cadesses?
2988Has he heroes& heroines whom the reader admires-- admires and knows why?
2988Has he paused& taken thought?
2988Has he personages whose acts& talk correspond with their characters as described by him?
2988Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways?
2988Have n''t I told you so, over and over again? ” “ It''s awful cruel, mama!
2988Have n''t you read anything at all about Joan of Arc?
2988Have you a memorandum of the route we took, or the names of any of the stations we stopped at?
2988Have you been secreted in the closet or lurking on the shed roof?
2988Have you developed any novelties of conduct since you left Mr. Murray''s,& have they been of a character to move the concern of your friends?
2988Have you ever been like that?
2988Have you forgotten early twitterings of your own?
2988He commended man to multiply& replenish- what?
2988He did not suspect what had happened until he heard one of the daughters ask: “ Katie, is it true?
2988He had never had a lesson, she said; if he could only have lessons what might he not accomplish?
2988He probably referred to the Monday Evening Club essay, “ What Is Happiness? ”( February, 1883).
2988He said to himself: “ Why did n''t I go now?
2988He said, very gently: “ How beautiful it all is?
2988He said: “''You thought you were playing a nice joke on me, did n''t you?
2988He says: “ A billion, that is a million millions,[??
2988He says: “ A billion, that is a million millions,[??
2988He wished to receive the full value( who does not?)
2988He wrote, asking Howells: Will the proposed treaty protect us( and effectually) against Canadian piracy?
2988Helen Keller wrote: And you are seventy years old?
2988Hereafter if you must write such things wo n''t you please be so kind as to label them?
2988His friend asked: “ Who''s Mark Twain? ” “ God knows; I do n''t! ” The lecturer could not ride any more.
2988How can you ask such a thing of me?
2988How could he, with a fortune so plainly in view?
2988How could that impress Adam?
2988How could you do it?
2988How did you ever think of it? ” It was a fearful ordeal for a boy like Jim Wolfe, but he stuck to his place in spite of what he must have suffered.
2988How do I account for this change of view?
2988How do you explain this? ” Clemens said: “ Oh, that is very simple to answer, your Excellency.
2988How do you reckon I can remember such a mess as that? ” “ My boy, you''ve got to remember it.
2988How do you reckon he accomplished that miracle?
2988How do you run Plum Point? ” He met Bixby at New Orleans.
2988How in the world did you ever come to locate there? ” Then they began to notice what they had not at first seen.
2988How much money does the devil give you for arraigning Christianity and missionary causes? ” But there were more of the better sort.
2988Howells in his letter said: She hallowed what she touched far beyond priests.... What are you going to do, you poor soul?
2988Howells, did you write me day- before- day- before yesterday or did I dream it?
2988I asked him if he was well, and he said,''What the hell do you want?''
2988I gave her a conundrum, thus: “ My dear madam, why ought your hand to retain its present grace and beauty always?
2988I said to the Duke: “ Your Grace, they''re just about finger- milers! ” “ How do you mean, m''lord? ” “ This.
2988I said, “ I did n''t belong to any. ” Then he asked me what order of knighthood I belonged to?
2988I said, “ None. ” Then he asked me what the red ribbon in my buttonhole stood for?
2988I said,''Jean, is this you trying to let me know you have found the others?''
2988I sha''n''t say a word against it, but she will find it a difficult& disheartening job,& meanwhile what is to become of that miraculous girl?
2988I suppose I ought to defend my character, but how can I defend it?
2988I want somebody to light my pipe. ” “ Why do n''t you get up and light it yourself? ” Brownell asked.
2988I was greatly pleased and asked: “ Who gets the extra one? ” “ Widows and orphans. ” “ A good idea, too.
2988I was naturally astonished, and immediately wrote: I did fall and skin my shin at five o''clock yesterday afternoon, but how did you find it out?
2988I wonder if it is?
2988If I had my new lecture completed I would n''t hesitate a moment, but really is n''t “ Cussed Be Canaan ” too old?
2988If a life be offered up on the gallows to atone for the murder Ruloff did, will that suffice?
2988If base music gives me wings, why should I want any other?
2988If he ca n''t get renewals of his bric- a- brac in the next world what will he look like?
2988If so is she extinct and can never attend a third?
2988If they want letters from here-- who''ll run from morning till night collecting material cheaper?
2988If we are going to be gay in spirit, why be clad in funeral garments?
2988If we made this colonel a grand fellow, and gave him a wife to suit-- hey?
2988If you can play that way left- handed what could you do right- handed?''
2988If you should be passing this way to- morrow will you look in and change hats?
2988In a dictation following his return, Mark Twain said: Who began it?
2988In later years Mark Twain once said: “ How much of the nursing did I do?
2988In one of her letters she says: The house has been full of company, and I have been “ whirled around. ” How can a body help it?
2988In the accompanying note he said: Say, Boss, do you want this to lighten up your old freight- train with?
2988Interest?
2988Introducing him, President Frank Lawrence said: “ What name is there in literature that can be likened to his?
2988Is it a regular army?
2988Is it an army of volunteers who have enlisted for the war, and may righteously be shot if they leave before the war is finished?
2988Is it less humiliating to dance to the lash of one master than another?
2988Is it one prayer?
2988Is it possible for human wickedness to invent a doctrine more infernal and poisonous than this?
2988Is n''t it curious?
2988Is n''t it interesting?
2988Is n''t that a brewery? ” “ It is, Mark.
2988Is n''t that a brewery? ” “ It is, Mark.
2988Is n''t that valuable?
2988Is that it? ” “ Yes, that is correct. ” “ By George, it beats the band! ” He liked the expression, and set it down in his tablets.
2988Is the Rebellion ended and forgotten?
2988Is there imaginable a baser servitude than it imposes?
2988Is there some way, honest or otherwise, by which you can get a copy of Mayo''s play, “ Pudd''nhead Wilson, ” for me?
2988It has always seemed natural and right to me, and wise and most kindly and merciful. ” “ Who first thought of it like that, mama?
2988It is n''t Holcomb, it''s Blackmer. ” I was ashamed again, and confessed it; then: “ How old are you, dear? ” “ Twelve; New- Year''s.
2988It may have materialized out of the unseen-- who knows?
2988It only costs the people$ 1 apiece, and if they ca n''t stand it what do they stay here for?...
2988It only costs the public a dollar apiece, and if they ca n''t stand it what do they stay here for?
2988It was not wrong?
2988It was you. ” “ But do you realize, ma''am, how tired and hungry we are?
2988Italy?
2988Klinefelter turned to Sam: “ Did n''t you hear him? ” “ Yes, sir. ” Brown said: “ Shut your mouth!
2988L. Am I not, to a man, as is a billion solar systems to a grain of sand?
2988L. And the air?
2988L. C.''Which was?
2988L. Do you know what a microbe is?
2988L. Does he forget him?
2988L. Employs himself with more important matters?
2988L. Has she been out to- day?
2988L. He commits depredations upon your blood?
2988L. How many men are there?
2988L. In ten days the aggregate reaches what?
2988L. In that costume?
2988L. Is it true the human race thinks the universe was created for its convenience?
2988L. Now then, according to man''s own reasoning, what is man for?
2988L. Then what?
2988L. Then why punish him?
2988L. To what intent are these uncountable microbes introduced into the human race?
2988L. What am I to man?
2988L. What is he for?
2988L. What is the sea for?
2988L. When was this?
2988L. Who is it?
2988L. Why?
2988L. Why?
2988L. You took a cab both ways?
2988Land sakes, Livy, what can I do? ” “ Which way did he go, Youth? ” “ Why, I sent him to Charlie Warner''s.
2988Land sakes, Livy, what can I do? ” “ Which way did he go, Youth? ” “ Why, I sent him to Charlie Warner''s.
2988Later he wrote: “ Put''Is He Dead?''
2988Livy screamed, then said, “ Who is it?
2988MR. MARK TWAIN-- DEAR SIR,--Will you start now, without any unnecessary delay?
2988Maguire, why Will you thus skyugle?
2988Mama said, “ Why do n''t you try''mind cure''? ” “ I am, ” Jean answered.
2988Man kills the microbes when he can?
2988Mark Twain''s own book on the subject--''Is Shakespeare Dead?''
2988May I send you the constitution& laws of the club?
2988Must he prove that he is sound in any way, mind or body?
2988Must he prove that he knows anything-- is capable of anything-- whatever?
2988My friend said, “ I always admired it, even before I saw it in The Innocents Abroad. ” I naturally said, “ What do you mean?
2988Next day he asked, “ Katie, did you see my pipe- cleaner?
2988Not much of it all is left to me, but I remember Howells saying, “ Did it ever occur to you that the newspapers abolished hell?
2988Now is n''t she the devil?
2988Now then, with this common- sense light to aid your perceptions, what are the air, the land, and the ocean for?
2988Now what is it?
2988Now you all know all these things yourself, do n''t you?
2988Now, do n''t you see what a world of confidence that must necessarily breed?
2988Now, therefore, why should I withhold it?
2988Now, therefore, why should I withhold it?
2988Now, will that do you? ” Clemens said it would.
2988Now, young men, if any of you were in command of such a fortress, how would you proceed?''
2988OR HELL?
2988OR HELL? ” The Christmas number of Harper''s Magazine for 1902 contained the story, “ Was it Heaven?
2988OR HELL? ” The Christmas number of Harper''s Magazine for 1902 contained the story, “ Was it Heaven?
2988Of course. ” “ What for? ” “ Oh, to discipline us!
2988Oh, Katie, is it true? ” He realized then that she was gone.
2988On another: Have you seen any portion of the second volume?
2988Once, half roused, he looked at me searchingly and asked: “ Is n''t there something I can resign and be out of all this?
2988Once, writing to Jean, he asked: What is your favorite piece of music, dear?
2988One day Clemens sand to him: “ Cable, why do you sit in here?
2988One day she said: “ Mama, why is there so much pain and sorrow and suffering?
2988One day, soon after, he said to me: “''Steve, do you know that I think that that bogus pipe smokes about as well as the good one?
2988One paper celebrated him in verse: Who killed Croker?
2988Or a gullet?
2988Or at least why was n''t something creditable created in place of it?...
2988Or is it a gull?
2988Or is the report exaggerated, like that of your death?
2988Ought we to allow this war to begin?
2988Out of this grew the story, “ Was it Heaven?
2988Presently, he asked me what order of nobility I belonged to?
2988Put a trap like that into the midst of a tragical story?
2988Redpath had besought him as usual, and even in midsummer had written: “ Will you?
2988Reverence for what-- for whom?
2988Rose Terry Cooke wrote: Horrid man, how did you know the way I behave in a thunderstorm?
2988Sam said: “ What''s that, Steve? ” “ Why, ” I said, “ that''s Laud.
2988Sam; ” he said, “ what do they mean by that? ” Clemens stepped to the wheel and brought the boat around.
2988Says I,''Hold on there, Evangeline, what are you going to do with them?''
2988See?
2988Shall I ever be cheerful again, happy again?
2988Shall we ever laugh again?
2988Shall we think this over, or drop it as being nonsense?
2988Shall you also say that it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter and become a mouthing lunatic besides?
2988Shall you say the best good of the country demands allegiance to party?
2988She ran breathlessly to her aunt: “ Can I have it?
2988She said, “ Why, Jean, what''s the matter?
2988She was determined to go out again, but---- L. How did you know she was out?
2988Shrunk how?
2988Since I wrote my Bible--[The “ Gospel, ” What is Man?]
2988So he sat down and stayed there until an executioner came. ” I said, “ How do you account for the changed attitude toward these things?
2988Speaking as a member of it, what do you think the other animals are for?
2988Suppose, after all, the school- teachers had declined to come?
2988Take a man like Sir Oliver Lodge, and what secret of Nature can be hidden from him?
2988Take it with you. ” “ Why? ” “ Because of that sketch of yours entitled''Luck.''
2988Telegram to Redpath: How in the name of God does a man find his way from here to Amherst, and when must he start?
2988That is to say, is n''t she a right smart little woman?
2988That they are in London, the metropolis of the world, Post- office District, N. W.?
2988That''s closed in, is n''t it, for the winter?
2988That''s his house. ” “ The placard that says''Furnished rooms to let''?
2988The autumn splendors passed you by?
2988The coachman sent in for him at 9, but he said, “ Oh, nonsense!--leave glories& grandeurs like these?
2988The curtain hid her.... Do you comprehend?
2988The humblest of us is cared for-- oh, believe it!--and this fleeting stay is not the end! ” You notice that?
2988The inspector asks: “ Now what does this elephant eat, and how much? ” “ Well, as to what he eats-- he will eat anything.
2988The letter itself consisted merely of a line, which said: Wo n''t you give your friends, the missionaries, a good mark for this?
2988The property has got to fall to some heir, and why not the United States?
2988The question is, if she attends two doe luncheons in succession is she a doe- doe?
2988The two sums aggregate- what?
2988Then he asked solemnly: “ And is he never serious? ” And Dr. Parker as solemnly answered: “ Mr.
2988Then he broke out: “ Why ca n''t a man die when he''s had his tragedy?
2988Then he says: Why do I offer him the play at all?
2988Then he was likely to say: “ Why did n''t you stop me?
2988Then if Satan should come, he would slap him on the shoulder and say,''Why, Satan, how do you do?
2988Then who is it, what is it, that they worship?
2988Then: “ What does he call it? ” he asked.
2988There''s nothing “ to strike out ”; nothing “ to replace. ” What more could be said of any one?
2988They cost ten dollars apiece. ” Clemens sand: “ Is that so?
2988They give us pain, they make our lives miserable, they murder us-- and where is the use of it all, where the wisdom?
2988This is my work, and I know that I do very wrong when I feel chafed by it, but how can I be right about it?
2988Thomas Hardy said to Howells one night at dinner: “ Why do n''t people understand that Mark Twain is not merely a great humorist?
2988To Howells, on the same day, he wrote: Wo n''t you& Mrs. Howells& Mildred come& give us as many days as you can spare& examine John''s triumph?
2988To Twichell Clemens wrote: Joe, do you know the Irish gentleman& the Irish lady, the Scotch gentleman& the Scotch lady?
2988To Twichell he wrote, playfully but sincerely: Am I honest?
2988To a woman who wrote, asking for his opinion on dogs, he said, in part: By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a “ noble ” animal?
2988To her sister she wrote: Do you think we can live through the first going into the house in Hartford?
2988Twain expect the public to credit this narrative to his clever brain?
2988U. E. WAS IT HEAVEN?
2988U. E. WHY NOT ABOLISH IT?
2988Upon my face She must not look until the day was done; For she was doing penance... She?
2988Venice?
2988Very well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a clean and withered old age?
2988Very well, then- what ought we to do?
2988W- h- a- r- r''s my golden arm?
2988WHAT IS MAN?
2988WHICH WAS WHICH?
2988Was hast du gesagt? ” But she said the same words over again, and in the same decided way.
2988Was it Grady who killed himself trying to do all the dining and speeching?
2988Was it R. U. Johnson?
2988Was it an illusion?
2988Was it both together?
2988Was it not our duty to administer a rebuke to this selfish and heartless Family?
2988Was it not our duty to stop it, in the name of right and righteousness?
2988Was it the Authors''League?
2988Was it to discipline the church? ”( Wearily.)
2988Was it to discipline the hog, mama? ” “ Dear child, do n''t you want to run out and play a while?
2988Was it to discipline the hog, mama? ” “ Dear child, do n''t you want to run out and play a while?
2988Was it you? ” “ Oh no, child, I was taught it. ” “ Who taught you so, mama? ” “ Why, really, I do n''t know-- I ca n''t remember.
2988Was it you? ” “ Oh no, child, I was taught it. ” “ Who taught you so, mama? ” “ Why, really, I do n''t know-- I ca n''t remember.
2988Was n''t it a rattling good comedy situation?
2988Was that right? ” “ Certainly, certainly.
2988We know it was a good reason, whatever it was. ” “ What do you think it was, mama? ” “ Oh, you ask so many questions!
2988Well, is it?
2988Well, then, what is he to do?
2988Well, they have invented a heaven, out of their own heads, all by themselves; guess what it is like?
2988What a child he always was-- always, to the very end?
2988What are deciduous flowers, and do they always “ bloom in the fall, tra la ”?
2988What are his tonsils for?
2988What are you going to do? ” “ I''m going to shoot those burglars, ” he said.
2988What are your plans for getting left, or shall you trust to inspiration?
2988What did it matter to him?
2988What do you take me for?
2988What do you think the General wanted to require of me?''
2988What does it mean, Susy?
2988What is Jean doing?
2988What is biography?
2988What is his beard for?
2988What is it all for? ” It was an easy question, and mama had no difficulty in answering it: “ It is for our good, my child.
2988What is it that we want in a novel?
2988What is it you want? ” But you and I are in the business ourselves.
2988What is it?
2988What is romance?
2988What is the essential difference between a lifelong democrat and any other kind of lifelong slave?
2988What is the matter? ” I said, “ There ai n''t anything the matter.
2988What is the process when a voter joins a party?
2988What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you?
2988What is there to say?
2988What kind of a disease is that?
2988What mother knows not that?
2988What name do you want to use''Josh''? ” “ No, I want to sign them''Mark Twain.''
2988What nationalities would he prefer? ” “ He is indifferent about nationalities.
2988What night will you come down& smoke?
2988What noise?
2988What other humorist could have refrained from hinting, at least, the inference suggested by the obvious “ Gas Works ”?
2988What ship is that?
2988What should we do and how should we feel if we had no bright prospects before us, and yet how many people are situated in that way?
2988What slave is so degraded as the slave that is proud that he is a slave?
2988What the devil does a man want with any more feet when he owns in the invincible bomb- proof “ Monitor ”?
2988What they want---- ” “ The nobility?
2988What use can you put it to?
2988What was the greatest feature in Napoleon''s character?
2988What would become of me if he should disintegrate?
2988What would it be for the whole human population?
2988What''s happened? ” “ Do n''t wait to talk.
2988What, sir, would the people of this earth be without woman?
2988When did larches begin to flame, and who set out the pomegranates in that canyon?
2988When shall I come?
2988When the Duke first moved in here he---- ” “ Does he live in this street? ” “ Him!
2988When the children came for eggs he would say: “ Your hens wo n''t lay, eh?
2988When the dictation ended he said: “ Have you any special place to lunch to- day? ” I replied that I had not.
2988When we entered, and Mrs. Clemens read on Shakespeare''s grave,''Good friend, for Jesus''sake, forbear,''she started back, exclaiming,''where am I?''
2988When you get an exasperating letter what happens?
2988Where are we going? ” “ Do n''t worry.
2988Where is it Orion''s going to?
2988Where was ever a sermon preached that could make filial ingratitude so hateful to men as the sinful play of “ King Lear ”?
2988Where was your remedy?
2988Who is his nearest friend? ” MacAlister knew a man on terms of social intimacy with the official.
2988Who is it? ” His informant hesitated a moment, then named a name of world- wide military significance.
2988Who is it? ” The courier said, “ Napoleon. ” Clemens assented.
2988Who is to decide what ought to command my reverence-- my neighbor or I?
2988Who knows?
2988Who lit the lilacs, and which end up do they hang?
2988Who might this late comer be?
2988Who so poor in his ambitions as to consent to be God on those terms?
2988Whose heart is broken by this murder?
2988Why curse and swear, And rip and tear The innocent McDougal?
2988Why did n''t I go with her now? ” She went from Clemens''s over to Warner''s.
2988Why do I respect my own?
2988Why do we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived?
2988Why does He give Himself the trouble? ” I suggested that it was a sentiment that probably gave comfort to the writer of it.
2988Why does he affront me with the fancy that I interest Myself in trivialities-- like men and microbes?
2988Why howl about his wrongs after said wrongs have been redressed?
2988Why should Darwin have gone to them for rest and refreshment at midnight, when spent with scientific research?
2988Why should his life be taken away for their sake, when he was n''t doing anything? ” “ Oh, I do n''t know!
2988Why should not China be free from the foreigners, who are only making trouble on her soil?
2988Why should they have declined?
2988Why was the human race created?
2988Why, Clara, are n''t you going to your lesson?
2988Why, Tufts, do n''t you know that the soldiers in the theater are the same old soldiers marching around and around?
2988Will Kanawha be sailing after that& can I go as Sunday- school superintendent at half rate?
2988Will anybody contend that a man can say to such masterful anger as that, Go, and be obeyed?
2988Will healing ever come, or life have value again?
2988Will one of you boys buy that house?
2988Will ye no come back again?
2988Will you remember that?
2988Will you return those proofs or revises to me, so that I can use the same on some future occasion?
2988With a rent- roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year?
2988Wo n''t you please stop it?
2988Wo n''t you talk awhile?
2988Wo n''t you?
2988Would you encourage in literature a man who the older he grows the worse he writes?
2988Would you like a series of papers to run through three months or six or nine-- or about four months, say?
2988Would you like me to come out there and cry?
2988Writing to MacAlister, Clemens said: Florentine sunshine?
2988Yes, he is here; and the question is not-- as it has been heretofore during a thousand ages-- What shall we do with him?
2988Yes, you know that, and confess it-- but what were you to do?
2988You can do your work just as well here as in Cambridge, ca n''t you?
2988You could n''t possibly teach music with a company of raw recruits drilling overhead-- now, could you?
2988You do not think me wrong?
2988You hold her, will you, till I come back?''
2988You note that position?
2988You notice the stately General standing there with his hand resting upon the muzzle of a cannon?
2988You say, “ Is this it?--this?
2988You think that picture looks old?
2988You will continue upon the water for some time yet; you will not retire finally until ten years from now.... What is your brother''s age?
2988after all this talk and fuss of a thousand generations of travelers who have crossed this frontier& looked about them& told what they saw& felt?
2988and ai n''t that a big enough majority in any town? ” he asks in a critical moment-- a remark which stamps him as a philosopher of classic rank.
2988and in pursuit of an office?
2988can a body do it to- day?
2988do you realize, Mark, what a symposium it is to be?
2988have you noticed that?
2988he telegraphed his tormentor: “ Why do n''t you congratulate me?
2988how have you written this miracle?
2988how''s that? ” A curious character was Cutter-- a Long Island farmer with the obsession of rhyme.
2988impostors, were they?
2988or Hell? ” a heartbreaking history which probes the very depths of the human soul.
2988or Hell? ” and it immediately brought a flood of letters to its author from grateful readers on both sides of the ocean.
2988or shall I send it to the hotel?
2988the tropics?
2988where is he?
2988“ And how is Mrs. Clemens? ” asked the uninvited guest.
2988“ But what in hell is an oesophagus?
2988“ Could a man live on a world so small as that? ” I asked.
2988“ Did you do that? ” he asked, ominously.
2988“ Did you ever hear of Mark Twain? ” asked Twichell.
2988“ Do n''t I deserve one yet? ” Unhappy day!
2988“ Do n''t you understand?
2988“ Do you expect to pay extra fare? ” asked Sherman.
2988“ Do you know the Bowen boys? ” he asked--“pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade? ” “ I know them well-- all three of them.
2988“ Do you know the Bowen boys? ” he asked--“pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade? ” “ I know them well-- all three of them.
2988“ Do you mean to say that you''re not going to vote for him? ” “ Yes, that is what I mean to say.
2988“ Do you see it? ” Clemens looked carefully now and identified one of the books as a still- born novel which Keeler had published.
2988“ Do you use terbacker? ” the big girl had asked, meaning did he chew it.
2988“ Does it? ” he said, very deliberately.
2988“ George, ” he said, “ what pictures are those that gentleman left? ” “ Why, Mr. Clemens, those are our own pictures.
2988“ Great guns, what is the matter with it? ” wrote Clemens in November when he received a detailed account of its misconduct.
2988“ Hain''t we all the fools in town on our side?
2988“ Have n''t you any other friend that you could suggest? ” Langdon said.
2988“ Here, where are you heading for now? ” he yelled.
2988“ Here, why did n''t you tell me we had got to land at that plantation? ” he demanded.
2988“ Here, ” he would shout, “ where are you going now?
2988“ How are you, Mr. Clemens? ” he said.
2988“ How far off was it? ” “ Oh, about thirty yards. ” “ Can he do it again? ” “ Of course, ” I said; “ every time.
2988“ How far off was it? ” “ Oh, about thirty yards. ” “ Can he do it again? ” “ Of course, ” I said; “ every time.
2988“ How many more are there? ” he asked.
2988“ How many? ” he demanded.
2988“ How much do you think it ought to be, Mark? ” James Anthony asked.
2988“ How would you like a young man to learn the river? ” he said.
2988“ I said,''Who the h-- l are you?
2988“ IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? ” I set out on my long journey with much reluctance.
2988“ Is n''t that a guitar over there? ” he asked.
2988“ Is there any evidence that he did n''t? ” I asked.
2988“ Livy, ” he said, “ did it sound like that? ” “ Of course it did, ” she said, “ only worse.
2988“ M.--What does it mean?
2988“ MAMA-- What did you say?
2988“ Man adapted to the earth? ” he said.
2988“ Nobody could have done it better; and did you see how those cats got out of there?
2988“ Promise what? ” I said.
2988“ Quick! ” “ What is it?
2988“ Reporters? ” The butler feigned uncertainty.
2988“ Sam said,''Dan, did you know, when you invited me to make that speech, that those fellows were going to give me a bogus pipe?''
2988“ Some one you know? ” “ No, ” he said.
2988“ Steve, what is that d-- d noise? ” he would say.
2988“ Still you-- are going to publish it, are you not? ” Clemens, pacing up and down the room in his dressing- gown and slippers, shook his head.
2988“ Tell us, Mark, why are you like the Pacific Ocean? ” “ I do n''t know, ” he drawled.
2988“ That-- rascal? ” he said, “ He has done me more injury than any other man in America. ”] LVI.
2988“ WAS IT HEAVEN?
2988“ Was he always really tranquil within, ” he says, “ or was he only externally so-- for effect?
2988“ Was this rebuke studied and intentional?
2988“ Well, he''s been here. ” “ Oh, Youth, have you done anything? ” “ Yes, of course I have.
2988“ Well, ” he said, “ who told you you could go in this car? ” “ Nobody, ” said Clemens.
2988“ Well, ” he sand, “ why am I like the Pacific Ocean? ” Several guesses were made, but none satisfied him.
2988“ Well-- Mrs. Clemens is about as usual-- I believe. ” “ And the children-- Miss Susie and little Clara? ” This was a bit startling.
2988“ What are you doing here? ” he asked.
2988“ What are you reading, Sam? ” he asked.
2988“ What in nation are you steerin''at, anyway?
2988“ What is your name? ” The applicant told him, and the two stood looking at the sunlit water.
2988“ What kind of a trip did you boys have? ” a friend asked of them.
2988“ What makes you pull your words that way? ”( “ pulling ” being the river term for drawling), he asked.
2988“ What will you have, Sam? ” he asked.
2988“ What would you do? ” he asked me.
2988“ What would you give for a copy? ” asked.
2988“ What''s the matter, Sam?
2988“ Where is it?
2988“ Where is the elephant? ” he asked, as they drove along.
2988“ Who did that? ” asked Laird''s second.
2988“ Who is he, George? ” Clemens asked, without looking at the card.
2988“ Who was it? ” asked his companion.
2988“ Why did n''t you mention it before?
2988“ Why do you think so? ” he asked.
2988“ Why in nation did you offer him your cue? ” “ Was n''t that the courteous thing to do? ” I asked.
2988“ Why in nation did you offer him your cue? ” “ Was n''t that the courteous thing to do? ” I asked.
2988“ Why not leave them all to me? ” My business brothers?
2988“ Why not leave them all to me? ” My business brothers?
2988“ Why, ” he said, “ have we met before? ” The Prince smiled happily.
2988“ Yes, sir, it is; what of it? ” The culprit walked over, and taking it up, tuned the strings a little and struck the chords.
2988“''What is it?''