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 The cause is already removed. I saw something that excited painful recollections; nothing that I could now wish otherwise than as it is.

Yet, may I ask why it is that I find one so accomplished, living in this obscurity, and passing only by the name of Miss Susan?

The world and my name are not friends. I have left the world, and wish to remain for ever a stranger to all whom I once knew in it.

You can have done nothing to dishonor your name.

No, sir. My father has done that of which the world disapproves, in matters of