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Show PRIVATE LIFE. In large cities, one knows little of the private life of business associates. At a recent trial in Brooklyn, N.Y., in which a man prominent for a long time in the political affairs of that city and well and widely known, was a defendant, the question was asked of him whether he was married. He was universally regarded as a bachelor, no suspicion had ever been hinted among his associates and friends of his being married, and the consternation may be imagined when he replied that he had a wife and a family of children. It seems almost impossible that such a mystery could be maintained by any man constantly before the public, but such was the case. The only explanation given in excuse for such deception was that the girl whom he had married was of a different religious faith from his own, and his mother being passionately devoted to her creed, would never have consented to receive a "heretic" as a daughter-in-law. For the sake, then, of keeping undisturbed his mother's affection, the man lived with unacknowledged ties. Strange are the mysteries of the affections. |