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"I learn'd at last submission to my lot, / But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. " / _Cowper._
"I wonder how women of thirty-five feel under these circumstances," / thought Cathy, as she followed the others up the narrow dark / staircase leading to Miss Cosie's neat sanctum. "I should have / imagined all sentiment would have been worried out of them by this / time, in this dismal old mill-pond they call life. It is very odd, / but it is amusing too," she continued, with a certain girlish / curiosity at the elderly romance that was impending before her eyes. / After all it was not without its pathos. "Perhaps he will not / recognize her when they meet, or most likely he has a wife and two or / three children somewhere; I would not answer for him. It is the / women who are faithful in these cases. In my opinion Jacob is the / exception, not the rule. Poor old Jacob, how threadbare they have / worn him! He was very patient and deep, but I liked Esau best."