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and I have never given you my malediction: yet Oh!—that you had never been born!"—
She snatched away her hand, and precipitately drew up all the blinds, to hide her emotion; but, presently, letting one of them down, called out, with resumed vivacity, and an air of gay defiance, "Marry him, Ellis!—marry him at once! I have always felt that I should be less mad, if my honour called upon me for reason!—my honour and my pride!"
The groom demanded orders.
"Drive to the end of the world!" she answered, impatiently, "so you ask me no questions!" and, forcibly adding, "Farewell, too happy Ellis!" she again drew up all the blinds, and, in a minute, was out of sight.
Juliet deplored her fate with the sincerest concern; and ruminated upon her virtues, and attractive qualities, till their drawbacks diminished from her view, and left nothing but unaffected wonder, that Harleigh could resist them: 'twas
