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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT. I WAS feeling blithe, almost jocund. I put a match to my cigar, and just then the morning's mail was handed in. The first superscription I glanced at was in a handwriting that sent a thrill of pleasure through and through me. It was Aunt Mary's; and she was the person I loved and honored most in all the world, outside of my own household. She had been my boyhood's idol; maturity, which is fatal to so many enchantments, had not been able to dislodge her from her pedestal; no, it had only justified her right to be there, and placed her dethronement permanently among the impossibilities. To show how strong her influence over me was, I will observe that long after everybody else's do-stop-smoking had ceased to affect me in the slightest degree, Aunt Mary could still stir my torpid conscience into faint signs of life when she touched upon the matter. But all things have their limit, in this world. A happy day came at last, when even Aunt Mary's words could no longer move me. I was not merely glad to see that day arrive; I was more than glad ? I was grateful; for when its sun had set, the one alloy that was able to mar my enjoyment of my aunt's society was gone.The remainder of her stay with us that winter was in every way a delight. Of course she pleaded with me just as earnestly as ever, after that blessed day, to quit my pernicious habit, but to no purpose whatever; the moment she opened the .subject I at once became calmly, peacefully, contentedly indifferent?absolutely, adamantinely indifferent. Consequently the closing weeks of that memorable visit melted away as pleasantly as a dream, they were so freighted, for me, with tranquil satisfaction. I could not have enjoyed my pet vice more if my gentle tormentor ...… (meer)
A melange of fiction, unreliable reportage, and after dinner speeches all touched with a light absurdism delivered in a rich allusive language that ornaments even the most pedestrian subject.
My copy belonged to my maternal grandfather, who died more than a quarter of a century before my birth. His bold blue-black signature fills the top half of the title page. When I hold this edition, which was published in 1884 and bound in November 1886, I feel a connection with this lost grandparent whose early death still affects me through its traumatic consequences for my mother. Twain's light humour and delicious absurdity echoes what I have been told of my grandfather's character. I like to think that this very volume fed his sense of fun just as it feeds mine. When I read it I share laughter with my grandfather over a distance of a century. ( )
-- “The Stolen White Elephant” -- “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion” -- “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut” -- “About Magnanimous-Incident Literature” -- “Punch, Brothers, Punch” -- “A Curious Experience” -- “The Great Revolution in Pitcairn” -- “Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning” -- “On the Decay of the Art of Lying” -- “The Canvasser’s Tale” -- “An Encounter with an Interviewer” -- “Paris Notes” -- “Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany” -- “Speech on the Babies” -- “Speech on the Weather” -- “Concerning the American Language” -- “Rogers” -- “The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton”
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT. I WAS feeling blithe, almost jocund. I put a match to my cigar, and just then the morning's mail was handed in. The first superscription I glanced at was in a handwriting that sent a thrill of pleasure through and through me. It was Aunt Mary's; and she was the person I loved and honored most in all the world, outside of my own household. She had been my boyhood's idol; maturity, which is fatal to so many enchantments, had not been able to dislodge her from her pedestal; no, it had only justified her right to be there, and placed her dethronement permanently among the impossibilities. To show how strong her influence over me was, I will observe that long after everybody else's do-stop-smoking had ceased to affect me in the slightest degree, Aunt Mary could still stir my torpid conscience into faint signs of life when she touched upon the matter. But all things have their limit, in this world. A happy day came at last, when even Aunt Mary's words could no longer move me. I was not merely glad to see that day arrive; I was more than glad ? I was grateful; for when its sun had set, the one alloy that was able to mar my enjoyment of my aunt's society was gone.The remainder of her stay with us that winter was in every way a delight. Of course she pleaded with me just as earnestly as ever, after that blessed day, to quit my pernicious habit, but to no purpose whatever; the moment she opened the .subject I at once became calmly, peacefully, contentedly indifferent?absolutely, adamantinely indifferent. Consequently the closing weeks of that memorable visit melted away as pleasantly as a dream, they were so freighted, for me, with tranquil satisfaction. I could not have enjoyed my pet vice more if my gentle tormentor ...
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My copy belonged to my maternal grandfather, who died more than a quarter of a century before my birth. His bold blue-black signature fills the top half of the title page. When I hold this edition, which was published in 1884 and bound in November 1886, I feel a connection with this lost grandparent whose early death still affects me through its traumatic consequences for my mother. Twain's light humour and delicious absurdity echoes what I have been told of my grandfather's character. I like to think that this very volume fed his sense of fun just as it feeds mine. When I read it I share laughter with my grandfather over a distance of a century. (