Records of Later Life

The book story of a however stoutly your incredulity may have held out hitherto against the various authentic reports of my marriage. I beg you will, upon receipt of this, immediately believe that I was married on the 7th of June last and have now been a wife nearly five mortal months. You know that in leaving the stage I left nothing that I regretted but the utter separation from my family consequent upon settling in this country is a serious source of pain to me. I did read your praise of me, and thank you for it; it is such praise as I wish I deserved, and the sense of the affection which dictated it, in some measure, diminished my painful consciousness of demerit.