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curiously constrained accents, the concentration of sorant other vent "Clara Louise Lennox

obtained a divorce frorounds of

drunkenness, failure to e He came home from sea, as you have said, the battered

ruin of a MAN, fallen beyond hope of redeed her, when once freed from it, to

carry about with her and thrust upon the notice of others the

loathsome body of death typified by his name and her matronly title

She commenced life anew at her father's death, contrary, let me say

to the advice of all her friends, if I except the hter The scheme was boldly

conceived You have admitted that it was successfully carried out

In New York the family were not known beyond the circle hich

they disdained to associate when the lodging-house business was

abandoned There were a thousand chances to one that in her new

abode Miss Dorrance would be identified by some busybody with the

divorced Mrs Lennox She risked her fortunes upon the one chance,

and won I do not expect you to believe that the i her second e than

the wish to seek the more exalted sphere of society and influence

which Fate had hitherto denied her You would sneer were I to hint,

however re,

but dissipated officer had never awakened--"