In "The Awful German Language," here's the sentence:
Difficult? -- Troublesome? -- these words cannot describe it. I heard a
Californian student in Heidelberg, say, in one of his calmest moods, that
he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
from _Selected Shorter Writings of Mark Twain_, ed. Walter Blair (Houghton
Mifflin, 1962), 181.
Hope this helps.
Donna Campbell
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