Page:In defense of Harriet Shelley, and other essays.djvu/90

 MARK TWAIN

&quot;predetermined&quot;; &quot;unsophisticated&quot; for &quot;primi tive &quot; ; preparation &quot; for * expectancy &quot; ; rebuked for &quot;subdued&quot;; &quot;dependent on&quot; for &quot;resulting from&quot;; &quot;fact&quot; for &quot;condition&quot;; &quot;fact&quot; for &quot;con jecture &quot; ; &quot; precaution &quot; for &quot; caution &quot; ; &quot; explain for determine &quot; ; &quot; mortified &quot; for &quot; disappointed &quot; ; &quot;meretricious&quot; for &quot;factitious&quot;; &quot;materially&quot; for &quot;considerably&quot;; &quot;decreasing&quot; for &quot;deepening&quot;; &quot;increasing&quot; for &quot;disappearing&quot;; &quot;embedded&quot; for &quot;inclosed&quot;; &quot;treacherous&quot; for &quot;hostile&quot;; &quot;stood&quot; for &quot;stooped&quot;; &quot;softened&quot; for &quot;replaced&quot;; &quot;re joined * for &quot; remarked &quot; ; &quot; situation &quot; for &quot; con dition&quot;; &quot;different&quot; for &quot;differing&quot;; &quot;insensible&quot; for &quot;unsentient&quot;; &quot;brevity&quot; for &quot;celerity&quot;; &quot;dis trusted &quot; for &quot; suspicious &quot; ; &quot; mental imbecility for &quot;imbecility&quot;; &quot;eyes&quot; for &quot;sight&quot;; &quot;counter acting&quot; for &quot;opposing&quot;; &quot;funeral obsequies&quot; for &quot;obsequies.&quot;

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now all dead but Lounsbury. I don t remember that Lounsbury makes the claim in so many words, still he makes it, for he says that Deer slayer is a &quot;pure work of art.&quot; Pure, in that connection, means faultless faultless in all details and language is a detail. If Mr. Lounsbury had only compared Cooper s English with the English which he writes himself but it is plain that he didn t; and so it is likely that he imagines until this day that Cooper s is as clean and compact as his own. Now I feel sure, deep down in my heart, that Cooper wrote about the poorest English that exists in our

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