CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY .-- V.
BY MARK TWAIN.
Susy's remark about my strong language troubles me, and I must go back to it.

All through the first ten years of my married life I kept a constant and discreet watch upon my tongue while in the house, and went outside and to a distance when circumstances were too much for me and I was obliged to seek relief.

I prized my wife's respect and approval above all the rest of the human race's respect and approval.

I dreaded the day when she should discover that I was but a whited sepulchre partly freighted with suppressed language.

I was so careful, during ten years, that I had not a doubt that my suppressions had been successful.
Therefore I was quite as happy in my guilt as I could have been if I had been innocent.
But at last an accident exposed me.