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DEATH S DOINGS.

long life embittered by self-reproach, useless re-gret, and lost affection, was purchased by a newdress and an ignorant waiting-maid—a risk so fullof danger and so fatal in effect was incurred, tostrike a man already refused, and wound a womanwho never injured her. Such are the despicableefforts of vanity for temporary distinction, andsuch the deplorable consequences of quitting thetender offices of affection and transgressing the re-quisitions of duty.

B. H.

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