Page 96 (1/1)

"'YOUR LETTER HAS GIVEN ME VERY GREAT SORROW;' let me die if that is not what she says; 'VERY GREAT SORROW YOU MUST HAVE KNOWN FOR WEEKS, EVEN MONTHS, THAT MARRIAGE BETWEEN US WAS IMPOSSIBLE;' am I perfectly in my senses? 'IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE;' why, 'tis heart treason of the worst kind! Can I bear it? Can I bear it? Can I bear it? Oh Cornelia! Cornelia! 'WE HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY' Oh it is piteous, sad So young, so fair, so false! and she 'GRIEVES AT MY GOING AWAY,' and bids me on 'NO ACCOUNT CALL ON HER FATHER'--and takes pains to tell me the 'NO IS ABSOLUTE'--and I aht as well have played the coquette in speech as writing It is Rem Van Ariens who is at the bottom of it May the devil take the fellow! I shall need sorief beyond all griefs--I believed she loved me so entirely Fool! a thousand times fool! Have I not found all women of a piece? Did not Molly Trefuses throw me over for a duke? and Sarah Talbot tell me my love was only calf-love and had to be weaned? and Eliza Capel regret that I was too young to guide a wife, and so randfather? Women are all just so, not a cherry stone to choose between the a woman does--Was ever a lover so betrayed? Oh Cornelia! your ink should have frozen in your pen, ere you wrote such words to er tortured hi headache, and, the physical torave way before it With such agonizing tears as spring fro wounded love he threw hith found rest in sleep frootisine this sorrow to be a mistaken and quite unnecessary one Indeed it was almost impossible for hih apparently accidental, had a fatality ed Not taking Re his rival in any way, it was beyond all his suspicions that Rem should write to Cornelia in the same hour, and for the sae of Reine Cornelia "grieving" at any journey but his own iland And that she should be forced by circumstances to answer both Rem and himself in the sareat love and anxiety should misdirect the letters, were likelihoods outside his consciousness