[The American Claimant by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Claimant CHAPTER V 5/13
And do you know, not one of these collegians has had the cruelty to ask me how I came by my new name.
With some, this is due to charity, but with the others it isn't.
They refrain, not from native kindness but from educated discretion.
I educated them. Well, as soon as I shall have settled up what's left of the old scores and snuffed up a few more of those pleasantly intoxicating clouds of incense, I shall pack and depart homeward.
Tell papa I am as fond of him as I am of my new name.
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