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Well, 'total amount,' $224,-that's pleasant reading for the "home rulers," but isn't it rather fortunate that my appropriations for the support of "Adams," and the "Holly Tree," aren't reckoned in on that total...
...heavy blow to me to leave the cultured society of Boston for a home on the boundless plains and perpendicular canons. Aren't canons very high? It was a humble home which we sought, a retired spot on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, where one could listen all day long to the sea's eternal hymn, with the plash of gold running from the veins of the mines for an accompaniment. But I digress...
...Here are my bookcases; aren't they handsome?" (They certainly were in good taste, because the taste was an upholsterer's.) "This set of Shakespere is a stunner. (I looked at the volumes; they were uncut, and Othello was standing on his head; I sympathetically put him on his feet) "And this set of Marryat's works looks very well on the shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing...