Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. SELECTED LETTERS: SECOND YEAR. January 4, 1891. T WAS just about to write " 1890" up there, when I -happened to think that that is a thing of the past, and if I want to be "up to date" I can't write that number any more. I received a letter from you the day before Christmas, and yesterday I got your "note,"--the one that was not a letter. Why did n't you go ahead and make it a letter, when you got so near to it? And can you explain why I did n't get it until Saturday when it was written Monday? But wait a minute,--I 'll look at the envelope. Oh, I see now! It was not mailed until Friday! I wonder if you were absent-minded and carried it around in your pocket all the week, forgetting to mail it. Or perhaps you wrote half of it on Monday, and the other half Thursday or Friday. I can't think that of you, though. At any rate, I feel highly honored that the first letter (I forgot,--I mean "note ") you wrote on your new paper should be to me. I think your new pictures are ustfine, and I thank you very much for the one you sent me. Do you really want one of my pictures? Of course, if you insist, I shall send you one, according to the agreement we made. But I consider them pretty "rank" pictures, and advise you to wait until I have some more taken. I wish, indeed, that I had taken your advice, and had been "boxed up in a closet" the three weeks before Christmas, and then I could have gone to Buffalo. But I look at it in this way,--if I had not been hurt and had gone to Buffalo, of course I should have had an elegant time, but all the fun would have been over now, and I should be back here with the expectation of not going again for a long time, while, as it is, I have the prospect of a fine visit' there next summer. How I hate to go back to school to-...
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