Personal Sketches And Tributes, Part 2, From volume Vi.,
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Child seemed to me perfect. Their sympathies, their admiration of all things good, and their hearty hatred of allthings mean and evil were in entire unison. Mr. Child shared his wife'senthusiasms, and was very proud of her. Their affection, never paraded, was always manifest. After Mr. Child's death, Mrs. Child, in speaking ofthe future life, said, 'I believe it would be of small value to me if Iwere not united to him. '" In this connection I cannot forbear to give an extract from somereminisce...nces of her husband, which she left among her papers, which, better than any words of mine, will convey an idea of their simple andbeautiful home-life:-- "In 1852 we made a humble home in Wayland, Mass. , where we spent twenty-two pleasant years entirely alone, without any domestic, mutually servingeach other, and dependent upon each other for intellectual companionship. I always depended on his richly stored mind, which was able and ready tofurnish needed information on any subject. He was my walking dictionaryof many languages, my Universal Encyclopaedia.
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