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& won't stand it; I dasn't use Clara, there's things I have to say which she wouldn't put up with -- a very dear little ashcat, but has claws.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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I would like to use Mr. Rogers, & he is plenty good-natured enough, but it wouldn't be fair to keep him rescuing me from my leather-headed business snarls & make him read interminable bile-irruptions besides; I can't use Howells, he is busy & old & lazy, & won't stand it; I dasn't use Clara, there's things I have to say which she wouldn't put up with -- a very dear little ashcat, but has claws.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Howells, he is busy & old & lazy, & won’t stand it; I dasn’t use Clara, there’s things I have to say which she wouldn’t put up with — a very dear little ashcat, but has claws.
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