A Fair Fraud — page 177: what you’re looking at

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166 A Fair Fraud and bounds, and every succeeding day had riveted her more into his heart. Now all was at end—or so he told himself— and his love was ruined and shattered for evermore |! ‘But I shall get over it,’ he thought; ‘though it’s an awful shock,’ for it was the thought of that other man who had her in his power that hurt him worst. ‘She whom I make my wife must be above suspicion,’ he told himself, ‘and that Hester _ Lane can never be!’ GOMMGIOO <S (GO) —