Her answer came quick and sharp.

She said: You have never done one single thing in all your life to be ashamed of--not one.

Look at the newspapers--look at them and comprehend what sort of characters Messrs.

Smith and Blank are, and then see if you are willing to lower yourself to their level and enter a public canvass with them.
It was my very thought! I did not sleep a single moment that night.
But, after all, I could not recede.
I was fully committed, and must go on with the fight.

As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast I came across this paragraph, and I may truly say I never was so confounded before.
PERJURY .-- Perhaps, now that Mr.Mark Twain is before the people as a candidate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how he came to be convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses in Wakawak, Cochin China, in 1863, the intent of which perjury being to rob a poor native widow and her helpless family of a meager plantain-patch, their only stay and support in their bereavement and desolation.
Mr.Twain owes it to himself, as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this matter up.