"Do not deceive Perkins--do not let the assurances of my mother

deceive you. She does not know me. I can not and will not marry

you. I will sooner marry the grave--the winding-sheet--the worm!"

Her strength failed her the moment he left the apartment. She

sank in a fainting-fit upon the floor, and was thus saved from

hearing the bitter abuse which her miserable and misguided parent

continued to lavish upon her, even while undertaking the task of

her restoration. The evident exhaustion of her frame, her increasing

feebleness, the agony of her mind, and the possibly fatal termination

of her indisposition, did not in the least serve to modify the

violent and vexing mood of this most unnatural woman!




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