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Patriotic satisfaction in the result; but unless the woman be
of more than common strength of public zeal, the thousand
lonely days and nights and all the swarm of undivided householg
 cares may well put temper and spirits to a sharp strain.
In the 1agt, year of Cobden’s life, as he and Mrs. Cobden were
*Oling up to London from their home in the country, Mrs,
Cobden said to him,—“T sometimes think that, after all the
8ood work that, you have done, and in spite of fame and
8Teat position, it would have been better for us both if, after
YOu and I married, we had gone to settle in the backwoods
of Canada.” Ang Cobden could only say, after looking for
% Moment or two with a gaze of mournful preoccupation
through the window of the carriage, that he was not sure that
What she said was not too true. But in 1840 evil days had
Dot yet come, and as they took their summer wedding trip
through France, Savoy, Switzerland, and Germany, Cobden
had ag good right as any mortal can ever have, to look
forward to a future of material prosperity, domestic happi-1633,
 and honest; service to his contr,

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