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10 of my children had grown to be more painful than ever and to [[strikethrough]] wait [[/strikethrough]] delay this heavenly solution of the whole case ^[[circled]] merely [[/circled]] to protect Kate's name from fools, with her, as we hoped looking down, and seeing all, [[paragraph mark]] I simply scorned fools, and obeyed Kate, and I pity Gertrude. [[pencil notes]] My family say it was four years Kate was insane I can't get clear whether it was 3 or 4. Gertrude knows little of our sufferings in this time, and the agony of seeing one's children motherless. [[/pencil notes]]