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"Hyde is exactly the man to invite me toofficer, who had been urged to make

inquiries because he was on familiar terms with his coentlemen, I'll bet ten to one that none

of you ask hi the American lady"

And perhaps many husbands eneral world seems beyond satisfactory explanation Hyde loved his

wife, loved her tenderly and constantly; he felt himself to be a better

ht of her and his little son, and he thought of

them very frequently; and yet his eyes, his actions, the tones of his

voice, daily led his cousin, Lady Suffolk, to iine herself the

empress of his heart and life Nor was it to her alone that he permitted

this affectation of love He found beauty, wherever he met it,

provocative of the same apparent devotion There were a dozen men in his

own circle who hated hiives to

dislike and envy; there were a score of women who believed themselves to

have private tokens of Hyde's special admiration for them

Unfortunately, his military duties were only on very rare occasions any

restraint to hi after Lady