A tidbit that might tickle your fancy: Roy Morris, Jr., writing in _Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company_, recounts Bierce's railing against Twain in his _News Letter_.... "...Even the unoffending Mark Twain, whom Bierce scarcely knew at the time, came in for a share of Town Crier abuse. 'Mark Twain, who, whenever he has been long enough sober to permit an estimate, has been uniformly found to bear a spotless character, has got married,' Bierce noted in 1870. 'It was not the act ofa desperate man - it was not committed while laboring under temporary insanity; his insanity is not of that type, nor does he ever labor - it was the cool, methodical, cumulative culmination of human nature, working in the breast of an orphan hankering for some one with a fortune to love - some one with a bank account to caress.' A little later, Bierce followed up on the Twain nuptials. 'It is announced that Mark Twain, being above want, will lecture no more,' he reported. 'We didn't think that of Mark; we supposed that after marrying a rich girl he would have decency enough to make a show of working for a year or two anyhow. But it seems his native laziness has wrecked his finer feelings, and he has abandoned himself to his natural vice with the stolid indifference of a pig at his ablutions.' And still later: 'Mark Twain's father-in-law is dead, and has left that youth's wife a quarter of a million dollars. At the time of Mark's marriage, a few months since, we expressed some doubt as to the propriety of the transaction. That doubt has been removed by death.'" -Roy Morris, Jr. _Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company._ NY: Crown Publishers, c1995, p. 125.