The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-07

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another, or who had less IN common.
An attached woman servant (more
friend to both OF. us than a, servant),
who had lived with us sixteen years,
and is now married, and who was,
and still is, in Mrs. Dickens's conf
dence and mine, who had the closest
familiar experience Of this unhappi-
ness in London, in the country, in
France, in Italy, wherever we have
been, year after year, month after
month, week after week, day after
day, will bear testimony to this.
Nothing has, on many occasions,
stood between us and a separation,
but Mrs. Dickens's sister Georgine
Hogarth. From the age of fifteen
she has devoted herself to our house
and children She has been their
playmate, nurse instructress. friend,
protectress, adviser, and companion.
In the manly consideration towards
Mrs. Dickens which I owe to my
wife, Twill merely remark of her
that the popularity Of her character
has thrown all the care Of the child
rem on some one else. / do not
knowI cannot by any stretch of
fancy imagine what would have
become Of them but for this aunt,
who has grown up with them, to
whom they are devoted, and who has
sacrificed the best part Of her youth
and life to them. 4
"She has demonstrated, reasoned,
suffered, and toiled. and come again
to prevent separation between Mrs.
Dickens and me- Mrs. Dickens has
often expressed to her her sense of
2 her afectionate care and devotion In
the house-neve more strongly than
within the last twelve months.
''F'or some years past Mrs. Dick
ems has been in the habit Of repre-
senting to me that it would be bet
; ter for her to go away and live apart;
that her always increasing estrange-
ment made mental disorder under
which she sometimes labors more,
that she felt herself unfit for the life
she had to lead as my wife, and that
she would be far better away. Il
have uniformly replied that she must
bear our misfortune, and fight out to
the end; that the children were the
frs, consideration, and that 1 feared
they must bind US together Sin ap-
pearance. aater Is fas e
sgs "Atalength, within three weeks,
it was suggested to me by Foster
that even for their sakes, it would
j. surely be better to reconstruct and
rearrange the unhappy home. [ en-
powered him to treat with Mrs.
Dickens as the friend of both of us
for one and twenty years. Mrs.
Dickens wished to add, on her part,
Mark Lemon, and did so. On Sat
urday last Lemon wrote to Foster
that Mrs. Dickens gratefully and
thankfully accepted the terms / pro-
posed to her. Of the pecuniary
part of them, [ will only say that
believe they are as generous as Il
Mrs. Dickens were a lady of distinc,
lion and [ a man of fortune. The
remaining parts of them are easily
described-mY eldest boy to live
with Mrs. Dickens and to take care
other; my eldest girl. to keep my
house, both my girls and all my
children, but the eldest son, to live
with me in continued companionshit
OF their Aunt -Georgine, for whom
they have all the tenderest affections
ha [ have evrey seen among young
people, and who has higher claim
7asI have often declared for many
years. upon my affection, respect,
and gratitude than any body in this
world.
81 hope that no one who may be
come acquainted with what / write
here, can possibly be so cruel 'anc
unjust as to put any misconstruc
ton on our separation, so far. Ny
elder children all understand it per
iectly, and all accept it as inevitable
''There is not a shadow of doub
or concealment among US. My cid
est son and are one as to it all.
"Two wicked persons, who shout,
have spoken very different of me, i