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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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The
year
was
propitious,
and,
in
addition
to
this
friend,
Fortune
about
the
same
time
bestowed
a
still
better
gift
on
Jenkin.
On
Saturday,
February
26,
during
a
four
days'
leave,
he
was
married
to
Miss
Austin
at
Northiam,
returning
to
his
work
the
following
Tuesday.
This
was
the
great
event
of
his
life;
he
was
strongly
attached
to
his
wife,
and
his
letters
reveal
a
warmth
of
affection,
a
chivalry
of
sentiment,
and
even
a
romance
of
expression,
which
a
casual
observer
would
never
have
suspected
in
him.
Jenkin
seemed
to
the
outside
world
a
man
without
a
heart,
and
yet
we
find
him
saying
in
the
year
1869,
'People
may
write
novels,
and
other
people
may
write
poems,
but
not
a
man
or
woman
among
them
can
say
how
happy
a
man
can
be
who
is
desperately
in
love
with
his
wife
after
ten
years
of
marriage.'
Five
weeks
before
his
death
he
wrote
to
her,
'Your
first
letter
from
Bournemouth
gives
me
heavenly
pleasure--for
which
I
thank
Heaven
and
you,
too,
who
are
my
heaven
on
earth.'
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