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Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures

CHAPTER III
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And we shall miss him from our home circle.

There will be a vacant place at our board.

Will you be happier away, Edwin ?" The last sentence was uttered in a tone of sisterly affection.
"Happier!" exclaimed the young man, thrown off his guard.

"Happier! I shall be wretched while away." "Then why go ?" returned Kate, tenderly.
At this stage of affairs, Mr.Darlington got up, and retired; and we think we had as well retire with the reader.
The good ship "Leonora" sailed in about ten days.

She had a supercargo on board; but his name was not Edwin Lee.
Fashionable people were greatly surprised when the beautiful Kate Darlington married her father's clerk; and moustached dandies curled their lip, but it mattered not to Kate.


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