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August 28 Wednesday – QC departed Yalta at 8 PM. From Sam’s notebook:
Sailed for Constantinople last night, saluting as we left—& fireworks. That beautiful little devil I
danced with at the ball in that impossible Russian dance, still runs in my head. Ah me!—if I had only
known how to talk Russian! However, she must have known I was saying something with all that
absurd English which she couldn’t understand [MTNJ 1: 411].

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.