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The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector

CHAPTER XIII
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Woodward is Discarded from Mr.Goodwin's Family.
-- Other Particulars of Importance.
The reader sees that Harry Woodward, having ascertained the mutual affection which subsisted between his brother and Alice, resorted to such measures as were likely to place obstructions in the way of their meeting, which neither of them was likely to remove.

He felt, now, satisfied that Charles, in consequence of the malignant fabrications which he himself had palmed upon him for truth, would, most assuredly, make no further attempt to renew their former intimacy.

When Alice, too, stated to him, that if she married not Charles, whether he proved worthy of her or otherwise, she would never marry another, he felt that she was unconsciously advancing the diabolical plans which he was projecting and attempting to carry into effect.

If she died without marriage or without issue, the property, at her death, according to his uncle's will, reverted, as we have said, to himself.


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