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wretch am I to think I have doomed you to misery!"
"No (cried Madeline), you have not; my fate cannot be miserable if I know it has mitigated your's."
"I will no longer delay revealing my sad story to you (said St. Julian); perhaps after hearing it, some other expedient than a marriage with D'Alembert may strike you for preserving me.
"You expect, no doubt (resumed he after he had secured the doors, and seated himself by her), a tale of horrors; alas! that expectation will be but too dreadfully fulfilled!"
