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affection ate unanimity between the rival queens themselves. When—
'Hark! there are murmurs in the crowded hall!
A sound—a voice—a shriek—a fearful call!'
The prisoner had hurried verdict and catastrophe—he had stabbed himself. Heavens! the sympathy he excited! 'Such strong feelings'—'ruin of his happiness'—'blighted affections'—in short, there was not a man in the court who would not have asked him to dinner, nor a woman who would not have married him."
Edward Lorraine.—
"An equal sympathy they both confessed."
Lady Mandeville.—"An equal sympathy do you call it? Come, Emily, we must teach them to value us higher—we must leave them, that 'distance may lend enchantment to the view.'"
