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SUSAN'S YOUNG MAN.
There seems no reasonable doubt that Myrtle Hazard might have made a safe thing of it with Gifted Hopkins, (if so inclined,) provided that she had only been secured against interference.

But the constant habit of reading his verses to Susan Posey was not without its risk to so excitable a nature as that of the young poet.

Poets were always capable of divided affections, and Cowley's "Chronicle" is a confession that would fit the whole tribe of them.

It is true that Gifted had no right to regard Susan's heart as open to the wiles of any new-comer.