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A drunkard's wife! This was a real woe. What were all her little vexations compared with it? Mary's resolution was a firm one, and in her earnestness to observe it, she knelt and prayed for strength from above to enable her to be equal to the duty before her.
Last night a terrible fate had menaced her. The lot of a drunkard's wife -- the most appalling woe that can overtake a woman -- had threatened to be her portion. The sombre cloud had risen, and her destiny was in her own hands.