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I am very sorry for it,—very sorry that your daughter continues so afflicted.—(Showing her a paper.) Have you any knowledge of this paper? The information contained in it is the cause of my present intrusion.

I know nothing of the paper itself; but the information it conveys is true.

Have you ever seen the hand-writing before?

No—yes—I think I have. Look at it, Annabella: it is somewhat like your own.

Dear Madam, how can you say so? The l's, and the m's, and the n's are all joined stiffly together, and you know very well that I never join my letters at all.

Very true, cousin; I see there is a great difference now, and I don't know whose hand it is, though doubtless the hand of a friend; for we cannot remain in this misery much longer. It should be examined into, that the guilty may be