My Mother's Gold Ring

THE GOLD RING. 1 have one of the kindest husbands : he is a carpenter by trade, and our flock of little children has one of the kindest fathers in the county. 1 was thought the luckiest girl in the parish, when G------ T------- made me his wife : I thought so myself. Our wedding- day—and it was a happy one—was but an indifferent sample of those days of rational happiness and uninterrupted harmony, which we were permitted to enjoy together, for die space of six years. And aldiough, for the last three years of our lives, we have been as happy as we were at the beginning, it makes my heart sick to think of those long, dark days and sad nights, that came between ; L»r, two years of our union were years of

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