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So, in April, 1820, Hogg went to Dumfriesliire, and in the old man- 

 sion house of Mousewald Place, where Mr. Phillips, having retired from 

 business, was then residing, was married to his Margaret/ 



Hogg did not find the pathway to marriage altogether 

 smooth. He was now fiity years of age, and the correspond- 

 ence shows that this fact gave him frequent misgivings. Sus- 

 picion and jealousy were rife from time to time, and once 

 ahiiost culminated in a serious quarrel. True love, however, 

 surmounts such trivial rubs, and, once married, Hogg and his 

 wife settled down to the most happy and mutually dependent 

 of lives. 



Almost the first occupation of Mrs. Hogg after her removal 

 to Altrive was to nurse her husband; but his illness at this 

 time was amusing rather than serious, for, at the age of fifty, 

 he was taken down with the measles. 



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