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MARK TWAIN 1835-1910
"Richard, I did see you the next morning. But you didn't see me."
"She certainly did see you, Dickie boy," Teena confirmed. "At great risk to
her own health. Be glad you're alive. You almost weren't."
"That's true," agreed Ezra. "I was your roommate part of one night. Then
they moved me and put you in tight quarantine, and inoculated me nine or ninety
ways. My brother, you were sick unto death."
"Breakbone cramp, green-pus shakes, strangle fever-' Hazel was ticking them
off on her fingers. "Blue death. Typhus. Minerva, what else?"
"Golden staphylococcus systemic infection, hepatic herpes Landrii. Worst of
all, a loss of will to live. But Ishtar will not permit a person to die who has
not asked for death while possessed of judicial capacity, and neither will
Galahad. Tamara stayed with you every minute until that crisis was over."
"Why don't I remember any of this?"
"Be glad you don't," Teena advised.
"Sweetheart, if you had not been in the best hospital in all the known
universes, with the most skilled therapists, I would be a widow again. And I
look terrible in black."
Ezra added, "If you didn't have the constitution of an ox, you would never
have made it."
Teena interrupted with: "Of a bull, Ezra. Not an ox. I know, I've seen 'em.
Impressive."
I didn't know whether to thank Teena or to call off the wedding again
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