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These three years of married life have wiped out, as with a sponge, all living memory of the past-I have gone with you to a new world. I will not expect too much from you.

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I am sad and spleeny, and begin to have fears that I may not be after all the greatest woman alive.

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I should like to find out how Joshua contrived to make the sun stand still.

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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

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Chev receives a great deal of attention... I do not like that the pretty women should pay him so many compliments... it will turn his little head!

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Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

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The city seems to contain scarce anything but artists, priests and beggars. I have seen the Pope three times, he looked like an old woman dressed up very finely.

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I do not think that I shall ever consider music as a serious occupation instead of a recreation.

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Women speakers were few in those days, and were frowned upon by general society.

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I threw away, once and forever, the thought of the terrible hell which till then had always formed a part of my belief.

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The desolate hush which fell upon our house... silent and cold, in the midst of weeping friends and children.

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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

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We bore the harassing conversation as long as we could.

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For the first time I saw a true picture of the neglected children of the poor-pale and wan, and I saw that among the wretched even childhood is shorn of its beauty.

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God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

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I remember one dinner for which I had relied upon a form of ice as the principal feature of the dessert.

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I walked on the beach yesterday at sunset. It was beautiful and awakened many pleasing associations of former days.

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Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

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My husband was himself averse to public appearances.

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From you dear husband, I would have no secrets. You have made me feel that you could not take much interest in my spiritual experience.

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