# Eve's Diary, Part 3

Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Ralph, Lester [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8528

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Eve%27s+Diary%2C+Part+3+Twain&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Perhaps I ought to remember that she is very young, a mere girl and make allowances. She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can't speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand, gray moss, green foliage, blue sky; the pearl of the dawn, the purple shadows on the mountains, the golden islands floating in crimson seas at sunset, the pallid moon sailing through the shredded cloud-rack, the star-jewels glittering in the wastes of space--none of them is of any practical value, so far as I...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/eve-s-diary-part-3-8528/chapters/1/index.md)