Letter, Julia Ward Howe to unknown recipient

I have lately looked into a book whose last words have been much quoted in foreign prints. Tue love kill her, is the last word of Dumas fils, author of La Dame aux Camelias, in the supposition case of a wife ______istatly un-faithful. M. Dumas is a writer of melodrama, but the humble life terminated by these words is probably the most serious work of his literary life. It is entitled l’homme femme, the man woman. I know not whether it is likely _____ to be so well known here as to make a discussion of its merits useful, if not necessary. It has some