Mark Twain

“ He might tell who told him; then the king and the duke would make it warm for me. Shall I go, private, and tell Mary Jane? No—I dasn't do it. Her face would give them a hint, sure; they've got the money, and they'd slide right out and get away with it. If she was to fetch in help, I'd get mixed up in the business, before it was done with, I judge. No, there ain't no good way but one.
THE DUKE LOOKS UNDER THE BED. I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got to steal it some way that they won't suspicion that I done it. They've got a good thing, here ”

“ They ain't agoing to suffer. Why, jest think—there's thous'n's and thous'n's that ain't nigh so well off. Bless you, they ain't got noth'n to complain of."
Well, the king he talked him blind; so at last he give in, and said all right, but said he believed it was blame foolishness to stay, and that doctor hanging over them. ”

“ The duke says:
"I don't think we put that money in a good place."
That cheered me up. I'd begun to think I wasn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me. The king says:
"Why?"
"Because Mary Jane 'll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put 'em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it?"
"Your head's level, agin, duke," says the king ”

“ Gets it the way people down here gets Congress-water—in barrels. There in the palace at Sheffield they've got furnaces, and he wants his water hot. They can't bile that amount of water away off there at the sea. They haven't got no conveniences for it. ”