The bereaved husband, yielding to a new attachment and a new response, and finding a new union thus prescribed, had yet been forced to reckon with the unaccommodating law of the land.
Encompassed with frowns in his own country, however, marriages of this particular type were wreathed in smiles in his sister's-in-law, so that his remedy was not forbidden.

Choosing between two allegiances he had let the one go that seemed the least close, and had in brief transplanted his possibilities to an easier air.

The knot was tied for the couple in New York, where, to protect the legitimacy of such other children as might come to them, they settled and prospered.

Children came, and one of the daughters, growing up and marrying in her turn, was, if Frank rightly followed, the mother of his own Addie, who had been deprived of the knowledge of her indeed, in childhood, by death, and been brought up, though without undue tension, by a stepmother--a character breaking out thus anew.
The breach produced in England by the invidious action, as it was there held, of the girl's grandfather, had not failed to widen--all the more that nothing had been done on the American side to close it.

Frigidity had settled, and hostility had been arrested only by indifference.
Darkness therefore had fortunately supervened, and a cousinship completely divided.