Yes, ours is a tribulation, and a sore one, but yet we feel we ought to find ourselves carried out of ourselves by sympathy with the wife whose noble and absorbing devotion had become like an entire life of itself, and who is now face to face with the void.
Morley reflects on the shared grief and sympathy felt for a devoted wife facing profound loss.
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