However, I shall be ready, and happy, to afford you still further information upon the subject, from time to time, as you may desire it and the Post-office Department be enabled to furnish it to me.
"'Very truly, etc., "'MARK TWAIN, "'For James W.N-----, U.S.Senator.' "There--now what do you think of that ?" "Well, I don't know, sir.

It--well, it appears to me--to be dubious enough." "Du--leave the house! I am a ruined man.

Those Humboldt savages never will forgive me for tangling their brains up with this inhuman letter.
I have lost the respect of the Methodist Church, the board of aldermen--" "Well, I haven't anything to say about that, because I may have missed it a little in their cases, but I WAS too many for the Baldwin's Ranch people, General!" "Leave the house! Leave it forever and forever, too." I regarded that as a sort of covert intimation that my service could be dispensed with, and so I resigned.

I never will be a private secretary to a senator again.

You can't please that kind of people.