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in Heidelberg on the 6th, & the entire castle will be illuminated with those colored fires which we use on Fourth of July nights. This is said to be a very wonderful spectacle. We shall carry umbrellas; then it will not rain.

It certainly is no harm for me to take a journey at a friend’s expense if he invites me; & it isn’t any harm for Joe to take a trip at my expense if I invite him—but how do such things get into the newspapers?—or why should they be worth printing, anyway? I bullyrag Joe into coming over here,—perfectly aware that nineteen-twentieths of the pecuniary profit & advantage are on my side,—to say nothing of the social advantage,—& by jingsⒶemendation, one would imagine, from the newspapers that Joe is the party receiving a favor. I could live a whole year in Europe out of the clean cash I have made out of Joe Twichell; & behold when I try to hand over to him a trivial share of the money which he has lavished upon me, people imagine I am spending my money on him instead of his own. There is something most decidedly unjust about this thing.