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134 beheld her. I breathed an inward and solemn vow to become the guardian of her innocence; and with the strictest adherence to perform the joint duties of parent, friend, and brother. She yielded me her gentle heart—I have become her husband; and am thence bound to her by the nearest and dearest tie in creation. And Heaven forbid that Angelina should ever have to say, I have neither parent, friend, nor brother!

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