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25, 1860.] the case.” The poor fellow drew back:—as his eye fell for a moment upon the young lady with her back to the door, I thought I marked in it a vindictive gleam. Could this be Moppet? and was that glance an expression of his feeling to the sex in general, since Boiling had glided like a serpent into his paradise. However, my reflections soon took another turn. How about a man’s love-letters?

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