An incident of theirvisit seems rather amusing now. And again on the 28th: It seems to me that things couldn't well be going better at Chicago than they are. In his memorandum made at the time, Clemens gave no account of the dinnerbeyond the above details, only adding: Aft There is no such thing as morality; it is not immoralfor the tiger to eat the wolf, or the wolf the cat, or the cat the bird,and so on down; that is their business.
Crane, August 12th, he spoke of recent happenings: DEAR AUNT SUE,--It was a most moving, a most heartbreaking sight, the spectacle of that stunned & crushed & inconsolable family. Clemensprivately and openly (to Bell) attributed it largely to his influence. I have taken a world ofpleasure in writing it & doctoring it & fussing at it. Burchard's ill-advised utterance concerning the threealleged R's of Democracy, Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, that defeatedBlaine, and
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