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rushed upon me about a month before it occurred.
  My present wife and I had felt utterly congenial and naturally very intimate for years.
  While Kate lived, Emma had become not only [[underline]] her [[/underline]] dearest friend, but a sort of second mother to [[underline]] us all, [[/underline]] and during the hard years of Kates suffering Emmas visits, whenever she could be spared from her own home, were immense comfort to us all.

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[[written sideways]] [[circled]] 7 [[/circled]] Even if Gertrude [[underline]] says [[/underline]] she doubts my words,I shall not believe it, but only feel that she cannot make herself own, against her hatred, that she knows me to be, at least of the noble class, and incapable of a lie in so grave a matter as this.
  Wm the Silent, 4 wives- adored 2 wives- execrated [[underline]] for this [[/underline]] fact. 
A. H. Thayer
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