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 gift of God than your love, whether you live in a Governor's Mansion, or the humblest cottage. I desire no career save that of a wife—your wife"—she hid her face on his breast as a little sob caught her voice, "and I would not change places with the proudest queen that ever wore a crown!" She said this looking up into his face through a mist of tears.

With trembling lips and dimmed eyes he stooped and kissed her as he replied,

"And I had rather be the husband of such a woman than to be the ruler of the world."