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 to say to you: Leave me, Sir, and see me no more."

"Louisa," cried he, much agitated, "consider well what you are about; I will not have my future happiness destroyed by a rash unthinking girl; do not therefore oblige me to take such measures as must inevitably hurt your peace, and make your father miserable." "Do what you please," I returned; "as your wife, I must obey you: And though I utterly despise you, I never will forego my claims." He looked at me with a contemptuous smile. "And pray what is the plan you intend to pursue?" "That I shall deliberate upon, and you will doubtless know the result soon." He took up his hat—"You have decided your own fate, Louisa, and must abide the consequence." I made no reply, and he left the room.

No sooner was the door shut, than my spirits sunk; and though I no longer loved the base betrayer, yet the difficulties, the prejudices I had to encounter with; the malevolence of the world, and above all, the hatred