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"Marriage," said James Macauley, looking thoughtfully into his coffee cup, as he sat opposite his wife, Martha, at the breakfast-table, "is supposed to change a man radically. The influence of a good and lovely woman can hardly be overestimated. But the question is, can the temper of a red-headed explosive ever be rendered uninflammable?"
"What are you talking about? " Martha inquired, with interest. "Ellen and Red? Red _is_ changed. I never saw him so dear and tractable."