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And, to my shame and disgrace, I have had to relearn this after offering you a love I had no right to offer--a life which is not my own to give." He took one step toward her, and his voice fell so low that she could just hear him: "She has lost her mind, and the case is hopeless.

Those to whom the laws of the land have given care of her turned on her, threatened her with disgrace.

And when one friend of hers halted this miserable conspiracy, her malady came swiftly upon her, and suddenly she found herself helpless, penniless, abandoned, her mind already clouded, and clouding faster!.