I can never cease wondering at my great good fortune in securing such a treasure for my own.

I am rich, rich in love.

My children are all very near and dear to me, and I know and feel that I am to them, but you--ah, I think you are dearer than all five of them put together!" "Ah," she said with a joyous smile, "those are sweet, sweet words to me! And yet they make me feel almost as if I had robbed them--your children.
They all love you so dearly, as you have said, and set so high a value upon your love to them." "And it is very great: none the less because my love for you is still greater.

You, my dear wife, are my second self--'bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.' It is right that our mutual love should exceed all other earthly loves." "Yes; and yet I fear it would make Lu--perhaps Gracie also--unhappy to know that you have greater love for anyone else than for them." "I think they do know it, and also that it is right that it should be so.

And I presume they will both some day love someone else better than their father.