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"When there is a family of , it seems hard to require him to live alone for the

rest of his life," she would allow candidly "Not that I pretend to

say that a connection forht of Heaven Only that there is no huht to ten that an efficient hired

housekeeper would render his home more comfortable, and his children

happier than would a stepentle tone and eyes growing sternly decisive--"it is difficult for

one to tolerate the idea That is, if she really loved her first

husband If not, shethe

venture--poor thing! But whether, even then, she has thea husband by

taking two for herself, has ever been and must remain a mooted

question in hly consistent with her

avowed principles She was but thirty when her husdand died, after

living happily with her for ten years Her only child had preceded

hirave four years before, and the attractive relict of

Frederic Sutton, comfortably jointured and without incuay bachelors and

enterprising ers, but for the quiet propriety of her demeanor,

and the steadiness hich she insisted--for the ht to be considered a married woman still

"Once Frederic's wife--always his!" was the sole burden of her

answer to a proposal of e received when she was forty-five,

and the discoside of

Caesar's hackneyed war dispatch

She had laid off crape and bombazine at the close of the first