She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick husband.

她不想再过这样贫穷的生活，也不想面对她生病的丈夫。

youdao

The next morning, as I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I came across this paragraph: PERJURY—Mr. Mark Twain, a candidate for Governor, was convicted of perjury by thirty-four people, in Wakawak, in 1863. He intended to rob a poor woman of her land, her only stay and support after her husband died.

第二天早上，我吃早餐时无精打采地看着报纸，看到了这段话：1863年，于瓦卡瓦克，34人控告州长候选人马克吐温先生作伪证。他打算掠夺一个贫穷女人的土地，她丈夫死后，这块地是她唯一的容身之所和支撑。

youdao

It was her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this Tholomyes as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child.

我们已经说过，这是她第一次的爱。她早已如同委身于自己的丈夫一样委身于多罗米埃了，并且这可怜的姑娘已生有一个孩子。

youdao

Her husband, a doctor who worked with the poor, took three bullets, yet miraculously survived.

NPR: Two Funerals in the Crescent City

Nualjan, a poor, pregnant country girl, wanders far from home in search of her missing husband, and, exhausted, stops at a lonely rural manor.

NEWYORKER: The Unseeable