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Excerpt from Across the Atlantic: Letters From France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and England
Slipped a little profusely into these letters; and I feel a misgiving that there are those who will attribute ulterior motives to this circumstance, or at least charge me with egotism. But, indeed, they are mis taken; for the dear knows there is nothing about me to warrant or cultivate such a feeling. It was SO natural and thoughtless to mix these items with the rest, that if it was an error, I sincerely hope to be forgiven. After all, there is nothing that the shoe maker understands so well as leather; and I would rather hear him talk leather all day, than a brief period of things that he knows nothing about. Some times an Observation has gone forth that, on subse quent re?ection, I would have scratched out; but when the relentless mail authorities once have these matters in hand, there remains no alternative but to telegraph; and at a hundred dollars a line, this manner of sober second thinking becomes rather an extravagant recreation. So, upon the whole, I have let things go as people get married for better or worse. Should I at any time have made allusions at which any person could take umbrage, I want it distinctly understood that it was always in a Pick wickiau sense, and as free from malice as the genial heart Of that distinguished individual. And now let me add, supposing this to be the end of my last letter from Europe, that no child ever looked forward toxxxn apology.
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