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MYSTERIOUS WARNING.
CHAP. I
I retired to my own apartment overwhelmed with vexation and resentment. What, could I submit to marry a woman who avowed her love for another, who detested me, and in whose eyes my very perseverance must appear meanness? Where was my pride, my feeling, to accept a reluctant hand? Yet when her beauteous form swam before me, her fascinating charms, could I coldly resign her to another? Was she not
