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With all his courage and buoyancy, 

 Audubon was subject to fits of depres- 

 sion, probably the result largely of his 

 enforced separation from his family. 

 On one occasion in Edinburgh he speaks 

 of these attacks, and refers pathetically 

 to others he had had : < ' But that was in 

 beloved America, where the ocean did 

 not roll between me and my wife and 

 sons." 



Never was a more patriotic American. 

 He loved his adopted country above all 

 other lands in which he had journeyed. 



Never was a more devoted husband, 

 and never did wife more richly deserve 

 such devotion than did Mrs. Audubon. 

 He says of her : "She felt the pangs of 

 our misfortune perhaps more heavily 

 than I, but never for an hour lost her 

 courage ; her brave and cheerful spirit 

 accepted all, and no reproaches from her 

 beloved lips ever wounded my heart. 

 With her was I not always rich V J 



"The waiting time, my brother, is the 

 hardest time of all." 



