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Show THACKERAY'S OENTLER SIDE. J Iran of Perfect )laplnM Ills Own JS nil 111. Vtlf.-a !.. - 1 The following letter was written In si 1S3S by Thackeray to his wife: Cm "Here haie wo been two years mat . ss rled and not n single unhappy day, ' m Oh, I do bless Ood for all this happl- KJ nets which he has glten mol It Is so M great that I almost tremble for ths fu- j turo, except that I humbly hopo for jf what man la certain about his own 9 weakness and wlckednrisr Ourlovels m stronr; ennuth to wlths and nny pres- I4p sure from without, and as It Is a gift greater than nny fortune, Is llkewlso '-3 one superior to poverty, or sickness, or JS any other worldly evil with which providence may visit us. Lot ua pray, rd as I trust there Is no harm, that none 4j of these may come upon us, as the best $ and wisest in the world prayed that he might not be led into temptation, W "I think happiness Is as good as ). prayers and I feel In my heart a kind ? of overflowing thanksgiving which Is 4 quite too great to describe In writing, m This kind ot happiness is like a flno ?i picture; you only see a llttlo b.. of It i when you are near the canvas. Go a lltttle distance and then jou see how ." beautiful It Is. i 'I don't know that I shall have dono 4 much by coming away, except by be- S Ing so awfully glad to get back." ' 4 |