BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA

 

Mark Twain

1835 - 1910

 

Extracts from Adam's Diary

 

1893/1901

 

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Monday

 

I BELIEVE I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday. It seems a good idea. . . . She has been climbing that tree again. Clodded her out of it. She said nobody was looking. Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing. Told her that. The word justification moved her admiration – and envy too, I thought. It is a good word.