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Please notice that I do not say that I married from any more Saintly motives than are apparent in any such case.

I simply awoke to a/sense of this being the one solution of all our troubles, as far as they were curable, and found someone capable of awakening to the same feeling, and she is sincerely worshipped by us [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] and Kate is her saint, as Gertrude knows. 

At the time of this second marriage the motherlessness