New England bygones . )reference, hardly more thanacquiescence born of habit, scarcely worth accounting of. Yet,perhaps, it hail to be there for a beginning. j\Ir. Eollins still lives, and of him I must sav next to he dies in mv dav, I will uive him such a settiuLi-out as shall INTRO D UCTION. 19 f-^^^^: ^^=$)|^;>iA^ WrxV U. makehim glow even in his grave, anrl while he lives it must be said thatEllens marriage proved to be so extraordinary,it so shaped and sheltered, fortified and devel-oped her life, that to leave it out is simply to 20 INTRODUCTION. sav notliiim. In aiiv iiiar
New England bygones . )reference, hardly more thanacquiescence born of habit, scarcely worth accounting of. Yet,perhaps, it hail to be there for a beginning. j\Ir. Eollins still lives, and of him I must sav next to he dies in mv dav, I will uive him such a settiuLi-out as shall INTRO D UCTION. 19 f-^^^^: ^^=$)|^;>iA^ WrxV U. makehim glow even in his grave, anrl while he lives it must be said thatEllens marriage proved to be so extraordinary,it so shaped and sheltered, fortified and devel-oped her life, that to leave it out is simply to 20 INTRODUCTION. sav notliiim. In aiiv iiiarriasj;^ the ovorwhohniiii; cliancos werethat she would lie wretched, the only saving grace being thatshe would not l»e wretched long. That her actual marriage|)ronhsed well could not have been rationally affirmed. Theyouth was healthy, manly, buoyant, full of humor. The maidenwas fragile, nervous, intense. So much appeared on the sui-face,and for all that appeared on the surface they might quicklyhave perished of mutual impatience and disgust. What did notappear on the surface was the deep, aijiding, inexhaustible adapta-Ijility of each to the other. It was time alone which showedthat fate, for once, was wise and kind. A woman of peculiar andIarely delicate mould was consigned to a man who not only lovedher, but knew how to cheii
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