LAUNDRYGerman laundry could not have acquired this perfect ignorance of how
to do up a shirt without able instruction--one easily sees England in
it. Your collar is like a horse-collar; your shirt can stand alone and
when you get into it you feel ready for crime. It is a wonder they do
not have more crime here, but it is increasing as adoption of clean shirts
spreads among the social democrats. |
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more on Twain's association with Ralph Ashcroft, see Karen Lystra's DANGEROUS
INTIMACY (University of California Press, 2004). |
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