Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

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"Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face."

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"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

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"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."

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