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Curse upon the Colonel, and curse upon the writer of the last letter I received, and upon all the world! Thou to pretend to be as much interested in my Clarissa's fate as myself! -- 'Tis well for one of us that this was not said to me, instead of written.
-- Living or dying, she is mine -- and only mine. Have I not earned her dearly? -- Is not d -- -- -n -- n likely to be the purchase to me, though a happy eternity will be hers?