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THE HORRID MYSTERIES.
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THE HORRID MYSTERIES.
CHAPTER I.
In the spring of my life, and in the full enjoyment of unimpaired vigour, and of dearly bought experience, do I stop, to look back on the path I went, or, rather, was led. I behold, in all the mazy labyrinths of my career, a visible hand; that, perhaps, is also extended over many of my friends, guides them in the dark, and has wove the thread which they, in careless security, fancy to spin themselves.
The invisible web, which encompasied my fate, is now, perhaps, torn asunder; and, perhaps, not. While I fancy to be free, the fetters which I imagine to have shaken off, are, perhaps, forged stronger, and may soon enthral me again. Be this
