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Rh lost—in a month, Temple was given a place in the Government.  So that after fifteen years of poverty and obscurity he and his wife broke into great prosperity.  [Nodding.] Into great happiness also. After many years of childlessness a child was born to them—the little girl he has gone upstairs to see. And then the bolt fell—you know how?  The death of his wife?  Her death-warrant anyway. An incurable malady! Temple thought it had been accelerated—perhaps generated—by the long period of their poverty, and reproached himself accordingly.  Pitiful! Pitiful!  He did everything that love and care could do. Time passed—two years, three years, four. At last he took her to Switzerland.  Yes, up to the Engadine.  No use! Six months later she came back worse