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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MAEEIAGE BRIGHT AND DARK DAYS FAMILY RELATIONS. He had now become acquainted with an estimable lady, to whom, after a courtship of some little time, he was married. We would gladly pass over this portion of his life, and remain silent on everything connected with his wife, marriage, and children, did we not desire to tell the whole story, for the purpose of showing the utter hide- ousness of the demon intemperance, - to show to what depths of degradation it will carry a man, even to the condition of disgracing home, and all that is holy and sacred about the family circle ; for it seems not only to steal away the brains, but the heart, and all those high and noble feelings that lift a man above the meaner things of earth. It would seem natural, even though a man had contracted bad habits while he was young and alone in the world, that when he promised to love, honor, and protect a noble-hearted woman who was as pure as snow, he would reform altogether. But when we blame a man for doing what looks to us a terribly wrong and wicked act, we should not fail to remember, that only those who have had the bitter experience, with a fearfully depraved appetite, can begin to comprehend what a man will do orleave imdone, in order to satisfy the cravings of what has become a diseased body. The testimony of nearly all who have come under this curse, prbves that there are times when at the risk of all they hold dear on earth, or hope for hereafter, they will have drink. We have heard a celebrated orator, who has passed through this fiery ordeal, say that he has seen whole days when he would have been willing to have placed his right hand into a scorching flame, and taken it out burnt to a crisp, if thereby he could have satisfied his fearful appetite. So in considering t
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