Apr
25
Don’t you see that your smug “of which” has turned that sentence into reporter’s English?
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Next sentence. You have made no improvement in it. Did you change it merely to be changing something?
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Second Paragraph. How do you know it was his “own” sword? It could have been a borrowed one, I am cautious in matters of history, and you should not put statements in my mouth for which you cannot produce vouchers. Your other corrections are rubbish.
Third Paragraph. Ditto.
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Second Paragraph. It was not blood money, unteachable ass, any more than is the money that buys a house or a horse; it was an ordinary business transaction of the time, and was not dishonorable.
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Third Paragraph. Drunk.
Mark Twain to an editor