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Lizzy Glenn

CHAPTER XI
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Discouraged, disheartened, and dismayed at the unexpected repulse she met, it is supposed by some, who now begin to half believe the story, that she died in despair.

Others say that the same young woman who called upon Mr.Paralette has occasionally been seen here; And it is also said that two of our most eminent physicians were engaged by a young woman, about whom there was to them something singular and inexplicable, for nearly a year and a half to attend her father, who was out of his mind, but that they failed to give him any relief.

These things are now causing a good deal of talk here in private circles, and I have thought it best to make you aware of the fact." From that time until the cars left for New York, Perkins was in a state of strong inward excitement.

Hurriedly arranging his business for an absence of some weeks, he started for the South late in the afternoon, without communicating to any one the real cause of his sudden movement.

After an anxious journey of nearly two weeks, he arrived in New Orleans, and called immediately upon Mr.Paralette, and stated the rumor he had heard.


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