Explore "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" by Mark Twain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. "
The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl -- a case of love at first sight and a precipitate marriage; a marriage bitterly opposed by the girl's widowed father.