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 ploring my assistance with a pallid ghastly look."

"It is true, the lover of the afflicted disconsolate girl did not deserve my assistance; however, I could not deny it to myself that I had greatly injured him—common justice required some atonement, and poor Helen would certainly have been lost without my assistance. These considerations conquered at last every hesitation which reason and honesty had suggested to my troubled mind."

"The forth night Helen paid me a second visit, entreating me more pressingly than at first; yet I remained firm and unpersuaded a good while; however, when she reminded me of my promise, and of, I could no longer maintain my ground, renewed my former promise, and went, without delay, the next morning to work."

"I entered at nine o'clock the apartment of my landlord, and could not but observe,