Then like a flash came that wonderful Jeffersonian change of facial expression, and as the white head drops upon the arms stretched before him on the table he says: “Well, she led me a hard life, a hard life, but she was the wife of my bosom, she was meine frau!
Watterson describes a poignant moment in Jefferson's performance of Rip Van Winkle.
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