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say or do, or leave unsaid or undone.”
Just so. All right.
I have got beefsteak for dinner to-day.
What do you think of the weather, and does your husband know when your blacking is out?
Now, my sweet darling, your old Mammy is just back from a tremendous jaunt.
I had a beautiful time in Iowa, and am as well as possible.
Only think, travelling and at work for one calendar month, and not a finger ache, 'cept one day, when I had a slight headache.
And I brought home over $200 earned by lectures. ...
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The Berkeley Nuisance,1 New York, December 26, 1885.
... What have I been doing for the last eight weeks? Never you mind, my little dear.
Mostly putting a girdle round the earth by correspondence, and some-ly worrying about my poor relations.
Don't you flatter yourself that I ever thought of you under this head.
But the-- , and the --, and the --, taken together, are enough to give one a turn at the worrycat system.
Well 'm, I had also to see the distribution of the whole edition of my New Orleans Report, and I can only compare this to the process of taking down a house, and of sending each individual brick somewhere, labelled with your compliments; supposing the bricks to be one thousand in number, it would take some time to distribute them, Harry Richards will be able to tell you how much time, and how many 