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I pass on to the next criticism, which a little "editing" on my part could have averted

Date of account: Published 1907
Source: Seen and Unseen
Reference: Seen and Unseen · selected passage 73
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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He told me that it was only too true that he had betrayed a young woman in a different rank of life from his own

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He told me that it was only too true that he had betrayed a young woman in a different rank of life from his own. She had died in child-birth _the preceding midsummer_, and had died cursing him for his perfidy. Ever since (it was now late in June) he had been haunted by her presence, seeing nothing, but always conscious of a malignant spirit tempting him to his own destruction. The mental agony was so great that he told me he did not think he could endure it much longer, and had almost decided to put an end to his life (little realising, poor fellow, that bad as this life might be, the next phase would be far worse for him).

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