“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.”
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“...for love like mine can never be gotten over.”
“…Years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute.”