Those earlydays of their close companionship, spiritual and mental, were full ofrevelation to Samuel Clemens, a revelation that continued from day today, and from year to year, even to the very end. He confesses this in one of his homeletters, perhaps with a sort of pride. Gently he untied the ribbons of her atrocious hat and removed it. There was some further correspondence with Bliss, then about the 21st ofJanuary (1868) Clemens made a trip to Hartford to settle the matter.
ing hissoul into a sultry denial which became a soothing and balmy subterfugebefore it reached the front door. The description had been explicit, however, and Emerson was certain we had found the right place. He hadnever been strong, his wavering life had often been uncertain, alwaysmore of the spirit than the body, and in Elmira he contracted a heavycold, or perhaps it was diphtheria from the beginning. Not that either of the ladies he loved resembled those mythical monsters, but they both had decided opinions on the subject of child-raising, and those opinions did not always agree.
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