Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (2015) by Mark Twain

Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Biographies & Memoirs, History & Criticism, Memoirs, Arts & Literature, Regional & Cultural, United States, Literary Fiction, Authors, Criticism & Theory, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9780520279940
Amazon: B014A3QJ0M
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015-10-14T11:00:00+00:00

I have already told how he believed Clara was not speaking the truth when she told him that that notion was utterly groundless; & how she got Dr. Quintard to go & reason with him; & how Quintard could not convince him; & how, when I went to Peterson, in my turn, he wouldn’t believe me, at first. That was about the 20th ^14th^ of April. He had been up here the day before, in my absence, & had been listening to Miss Lyon’s falsities all day.

I̸ All I could get out of Peterson was permission to allow Jean to come home for one week. If the experiment was not a failure it could be tried a little longer & its results noted.

So Jean arrived here on the 26th of April; so glad to be in her own home once more, that she hadn’t any words for her gratitude. She is here yet, & is as healthy as the very rocks. Not a single symptom of her cruel malady has ever shown itself. She is up at six in the morning & is busy & active thence till bedtime at nine in the evening. She rakes & mows on her farm; superintends her men; directs the repairs upon her house & barn; buys chickens & ducks from the farmers around & feeds & cares for them herself; walks home at eleven, examines & annotates the mail, then answers the letters & draws the checks for all bills; & in an two hours has cleared off all my secretary-work for the day—a most pleasant & satisfactory change from the shirking ways of that lazy & incompetent former secretary of mine, who couldn’t write English, whereas Jean can. Jean spends the afternoon riding horseback & driving until her five o’clock tea. Imagine it—I could have had her at home two years ago, ^(as I have at last discovered,)^ but for the schemings of that pitiless pair & my own inexcusable stupidity!

Well, they themselves have avenged me. For they are married. Two months & a half. Th By this time they loathe each other. They didn’t want to marry, they were scared into it. They smelt bad weather coming. Each is a millstone around the other’s neck, & each wishes the other was in hell. ^New Jersey.^ They have over-avenged me; I couldn’t wish a dog ^my dearest enemy^ such luck as theirs.

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