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SUSAN HOPLEY.
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the light going out. But now I shall go to bed directly.'

"'Go to bed, to be sure,' returned the old woman. 'Sleep, child, by night, and think of your troubles by day.'

"And Julie did go to bed, and to sleep too. She had heard enough to satisfy her of her own safety, and to convince her that she was on the right track, and had a very fair prospect of saving the life and the honour of the man she loved,—'and surely,' thought she, as she closed her eyes—'he will love me, when he hears all I have done for him—he'll forget Aurore—that is, he'll write to her and say, 'Mademoiselle, or Madame, (selon), I regret extremely that circumstances of a very particular nature—particular nature—will preclude—my having the happiness—to—to unite myself—to you—in—in—' and here her drowsiness overcame her, and she fell fast asleep."

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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