y exhilarating and
inspiring to be back once more in the field. But my greatest inspiration
is my wife. She is a remarkable woman. A most extraordinary woman,
I assure you. How in the world I managed to exist without her
companionship and guidance and amazingly practical help all these
years I cannot imagine. And I did not really exist, of course, I merely
blundered along. She is--well, I really despair of telling you how
wonderful she is. And when I think how much of my present happiness I
owe to you, Cousin Gussie, I...

* * * * *

But the greatest miracle, the miraculousness--I don't know there is such
a word, but there should be--of which sets me wondering continually, is
that she should have been willing to marry an odd, inconsequential sort
of stick like me. And I find myself saying over and over: "WHAT have I
ever done to deserve it?..."

Mr. Cabot was reading the letter from which these extracts were made to
a relative, a Miss Deborah Cabot, known to him and the family as "Third
Cousin Deborah." At this point in the reading he looked up and laughed.

"By Jove!" he exclaimed. "Isn't that characteristic? Isn't that like
him? Well, I told him once that he was magnificent. And he is, not as I
meant it then, but literally."

Third Cousin Deborah sniffed through her thin nostrils. "Well, perhaps,"
she admitted, "but such a performance as this marriage of his is a
little too much. _I_ can't understand him, Augustus. I confess he is
quite beyond ME."

Cabot smiled. "In many things--and possibly the things that count most,
after all, Deborah," he observed, "I have come to the conclusion that
old Galusha is far beyond the majority of us."

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