A man may have no bad habits and have worse. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. 

The Clemens family leaves Paris for New York and the onset of Twains' most extensive lecture tour ever. He "had grown to hate lecturing" but if he was to settle his debts, it was necessary. Livy and Clara would accompany him on this trip. Suzy and Jean would remain with their aunt at Quarry Farm, near Elmira, New York. He would never see Suzy again.  

The chapter spans a period of time from May of 1895 to about August 23, when Twain departed Victoria, Canada for Honolulu. He does not mention any of his lecture dates during this period, only to say of it "a snail-paced march across the continent, which had lasted forty days."  

I have included a section that discusses the tour across North American - material not included in this book.

Much of chapter one is devoted to Twain's opinion on how to deal with bad habits, with examples.   He recommends his regime to a woman in poor health but unfortunately for her she did not have any of the bad habits enumerated by Twain.