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execruble and [[parts of three lines erased]] fed ... of like an ... of every one who ... her sentiment. [[/parts of three line erased]] [[insert]] Pardon this erasure [[/insert]]  My case is simply thus:  my children 2 1/2 years old, 5 and 11, at the beginning were, all those years of their mother's insanity, suffering an endless succession of attempts to have a good motherly governess, [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] some them being sent away, others not like us [[strikethrough]] either [[/strikethrough]] -- You surely can, as a father imagine the seriousness of motherlessness to small children.  Most of the time I was necessarily

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away all day, and scarcely could see them except on Sunday.
   Gertrude wrote Mary that her almost chief hero was Wm the Silent.  Wm the Silent married four times, this brings down her whole claim to hate me to the fact that I married three months after the death of the children's mother instead of waiting longer.
   I scarcely believe that Gertrude in her hear believes me to be capable of lying, and I tell you that this very fact of my speedy second marriage was one of the best