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NEGLECT


CHAPTER XXV.


LORD MARCHMONT'S JEALOUSY.


You never loved me! never cared for me!
Had I been taken kindly to your heart,
This present misery were all unknown:
But I have been neglected and repelled;
My best affections chilled, or left to feed
Upon themselves. I have so needed love,
I should have loved you but from gratitude,
If you had let me.



Not in Blanchard