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"But why harrowthe past? Suffice it to say that

he whom I loved is dead We both saw him die, and I received upon my lips

his last breath Truly if he were Julia's in life, he was mine in death

Did you never suspect how truly I loved Mr Wilmot? You were blinded by

your misplaced affection for me, if you did not Julia, my noble-hearted

sister Julia, knew it all I confessed o to him, but to let me take her place at his bedside

She complied with my request, and then bravely bore in silence the

reproaches of the world for her seeed recently, and you would hardly

know her, she is so gentle, so obliging, so aht to have

heard her plead your cause with ht me almost with tears not

to prove unfaithful to you, and when I convinced her that 'twas impossible

for me to love another as I had Mr Wil you in suspense any longer

"Dr Lacey, if you could transfer your affection fro! You will probably despise all my family

Yet do not, I beseech you, cast thehly, and Julia would be angry if she knew that I am about