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It will readily be imagined that it was in no amiable state of mind I left the house. Distraction was what I wanted -- distraction from thoughts of the sad events which had just transpired, and which threatened to wreck all the hopes of wedded happiness I had founded upon Vera's supposed love for me. It was a bitter experience of the vanity of human pleasures, and was one more proof of the falsity and hollowness of her whom I had loved more than life itself.
Determined to leave the Dene and rid myself of these remorseful thoughts, I jammed on my hat and rushed from the house.