Rogers had written for passes over the Pennsylvania road, and thepresident, replying, said: No, I won't give Mark Twain a pass over our road. If a pauper owes me a dollar and I catch him unprotected andmake him pay me fourteen dollars thirteen of it is theft and extortion. I shall continue this (an hour per day), but the rest of the year I expect to put in on a couple of long books (half- completed ones). He was sure of an attentive audience of one, andthe audience, whether it agreed with him or not, would at leastunderstand him and be honored by his confidence.
I am not sure that we shall ever be strong enough to endure that strain. Introduction to Portuguese conversation book (Hartford). repare for heaven, but to prepare to remain onearth, and it is such men as Mark Twain who make other men not fit todie, but fit to live. It is melancholy to hear them jabber over the same pointless anecdotesthree and four times of an evening, forgetting that they had jabberedthem over three or four times the evening before.
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