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heart.- Never, Sir., never, anything rather than perjury of soul and body. I can never love you. Let this suffice; my will is fixed; yes, any misery, even to desolation, before I lie against God and my love. Do you understand me W. Nalford (the gentlemans <--This is a comment! gentlemans [sic] -MS--> name). I will speak more plainly. You have often heard W. Forrester's name in my uncle's family. I have loved him from a child. No other man can become my husband!

Winter had set in once more,