11/02/2026 17:13

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To-night it will be 5 weeks. e three weeks, swapping knives and playing seven up with the Indians, waiting for the river to fall. I have lost no day since, and suffered no discomfort to speak of, but drove my troubles out of my mind and had good success in keeping them out--through watchfulness. and thatas the fancy moved him, and a drawer in one of his dressers began toaccumulate fresh though usually fragmentary manuscripts.

I have dismissed my stenographer, & have entered upon a holiday whose other end is the cemetery. They were most handsomely treated in Budapest. It makes me feel like a circus-poster in a graveyard. I was beside myself with gratitude and joyful surprise, and revealed it from every pore.