Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-08-01


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hope you will agree to it."
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seen you but once, but that ouce was
too memorable for me ever to forget
it, and something always insinuatcd
to me that we were destined to pass
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thought struck me that I might one
day make you wealthy. AT length
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tons proposal laid in disinclination
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ly, under the impression, that it
would be, after all, carrying romance
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I consented to Sir James proposal.
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is really like q fairy tale. I, I,apoor
orphan, penniless, became the wife
of one of the richest baronets of En-.
gland. Dressed silks. aad parking
with jewe'ry, I could now pass the
very streets, where, few mouths
before, I had stood in the rain aud
darkness-a lone mendicant!'
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Ia Tour, at this part of the story /;
che could prove his love by en-
riching you"
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lady. "Our marriage, so strangely
assorted, proved much more condn-
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fort than If he had welded one with
whom all the parade Of settlements,
OF pin money would have been nsc-
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instant repent Of our union- ]. on
my part. conceived myself bound to
do nav best for the solace Of his de-
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