..there was not a jury in America that would not give their verdict in her favour without a dissentient voice. His first wife, he recalled, had divorced him on far flimsier grounds. So had his second, third, and fourth. And Bradbury loved his wife. There had been a time in his life when, if he lost a wife, he had felt philosophically that there would be another one along in a minute, but, as a man grows older, he tends to become set in his habits, and he could not contemplate existence without the company of the present incumbent. (From High Stakes, in The Heart of a Goof)
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