William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image Attribution: Jesse Harrison Whitehurst (Public domain)

On the twenty-fifth of April, and the eighteenth of June, the days of marriage and widowhood, she kept her room entirely, consecrating them (and we do not know how many hours of solitary night-thought, her little boy sleeping in his crib by her bedside) to the memory of that departed friend.

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