Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866

chapter is too long and too depressing to be set down here. The reader

may look it up for himself, if he chooses. If he does he will not wonder that Jane Clemens’s handsome features had become somewhat sharper, and her manner a shade graver, with the years and burdens of marriage, or that John Clemens at thirty-six-out of health, out of tune with his environment —was rapidly getting...