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rendered her life a [unclear], than her inclination dictated. My confidence in her, was unbounded, and her interest for me was too keen to induce her to the misapplication of time or money, she was always my [guider?], and my adviser. When we [unclear] to the more [unclear] of time, during which our [unclear] were blended, being a period of fourteen years and eleven months, if [unclear], and was very short. Yet it is said that life is not [measurable?] by the number of its days, but by the work is accomplished. Measure, then, life with us, by the number of our social hours and it was measurably long, and useful for the blessings we enjoyed. With the exception of her two visits to Vermont, in which I was not with her, save but a portion of the time, on her first visit, and I was not absent from her, only on two occasion, on going