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my tank, neither do I intend doing so. #,Vîr6n was the ]#ng
who #ote the roy# doc#enç, #nd read if fo you. The whole
affair w# # joke ; but a joke bene#th which deep e#rnestness
lies conceMed. #y views în relation fo the so-styled nobifity,
are and ever #1 remain the saine. Before love cuused me fo
dem#d #melia from you, as my wffe, I had the #çention to
#thdraw openly #om a rank # society whic# In short, my
petition had already been sent fo Stockholm ; but when I
reflected more seriously upon the subjec#, I #mediately #o¢e fo
my agent, deman#ng t#at the documen# sho#d be oetu#ed. If
is noç the firs# t#e that love bas destroyed the intentions of a
man; bu# in tMs case the fear that my method of #ctîon, which
was based upon con#cçion, mighç be considered as the conse-
quence of a #lg# desire for vengeance, had the #eatesç weight
with me.
"If was no# neces#ry ço tes# Amelia. She w# acqu#ted
#vith the subject; but I, neve#heless, left her in the opinion
that I was abou# fo ca#y out my design, and resi# my rank,
#d I observed, fo my #ea# joy, that her love conquered. Wirén
was also acqua#ted with my resolution, bu# I afterw#ds
informed him that if would aH end in a joke. I ara hOt fond of
practical jokes ; #nd, as far # I remember, this, and the procla-
ma¢ion, #re the firs# I ever carried #to effect, but#pardon me,
de# father. Do not take if #miss if I do noç purchase a title,
and I #vill no% on my pa#, pro#se never to c#H m#eff muster-
tanner again."
The lieutenant-colonel felç as though he had f#len from heaven;
or, better said, that he was # he#ven # and in his cont#ued
coction of #nd, he sipped af h# empty #ne-glass. "Ahem t
indeed !" were the only sounds that issued #om his lips, as he
reflected upon the part he should now perform. #Ls pride was
offended, that he had been ruade the laughing-stock of the com-
pany; but if soon gave way fo the joy tha¢ Ame#a had been
#ved. But before he was able fo colleet his scattered thoughts,
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