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CHAPTER XXVII.


A DISCOVERY.


It is a fearful trust, the trust of love.
In fear, not hope, should woman's heart receive
A guest so terrible. Ah! never more
Will the young spirit know its joyous hours
Of quiet hopes and innocent delights;
Its childhood is departed.



Blanchard’s title is:

THE FEARFUL TRUST


In The New Yorker (24th March 1838), as Trust of Love