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When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

"Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished" edited by Roger Fulfold, (p. 254), 1964.
When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.