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Bertha and Her Baptism

CHAPTER Third
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Soc._, 1843, pp.

25-30 .-- [ED.]] The gentleman agreed to allow her the largest liberty, and they were married.

He knew that she had a mind and heart that were more precious than rubies, and that the heart of a husband could safely trust in her.
The sequel will show, however, how good it is to be matched as well as mated, and, in the conjugal relation, to be "perfectly joined together in the same judgment." The object of my call, that evening, was to rejoice with her, and to be the bearer of some congratulations at the recovery of their infant, whose death had been expected for some time.

The child was now perfectly restored.
As I stood in the entry, not having rung the door-bell, and was hanging up my hat and coat, some one in the parlor said: "What good can it do the child or us to sprinkle a little water on its head ?" "Good-evening, Mr.M.," said the husband, as I went in.

I was interrupted in my expression of a fear that I had intruded upon their conversation, by their assurances to the contrary.


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