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Letter, 2 June 1859, pages 16-20 (Transcriptions Needed)
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ten years, been but a lie, a lengthened, continuous lie."
"If she replies scornfully. "Your words were anything to me now. I should resent such language. Have I loved you? Well enough to submit to be ___, ___, almost slave! I have learnt to dread your presence in the midst of what I deem innocent amusement. No husband shall school me: the wife's position is an equal one and you would degrade it. So, I will not marry to such bondage. Oft have I said, if M. Forrester acts thus again, it shall be the last time, and the last time has come!
"Stop" cried M. F. "for I can bear no more. I should be ____ indeed upon my own misery, if I urge you further. Strange that we have thus deceived ourselves - that, instead of loving me, such ____ hatred is burning in your heart. What blind dreamer we are."