A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 12: what you’re looking at

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10 A LADY BACHELOR. ceedingly plain; the ways which had been admired as art- less were denounced as artful—indeed, she who had been _ go admired a little before was shunned, save by a few, who, — pityingly, still recognized her attractiveness. Whence this ehange?. Alas! this girl was an impostor; she had been found out, unmasked; she was a criminal; had been guilty of a terrible crime, and exposure had followed. Her seeming ingenuousness, it had been discovered, was really deceit, and her sin had found her out. Ah! she was a beautiful girl to be a criminal, but, alas! ’tis too true. She had committed a terrible crime; exposure had come right in the midst of her social triumph; her tim- idity, her fearfulness, was all explained. I felt sorry for her, and could not realize that she was indeed a criminal. She was, however, and it is the story of her crime, her ter- rible sin, that I propose to relate; and in the end my read- ers shall decide whether the terrible punishment that over- took her, and dethroned her socially, and caused her to be shunned and avoided, was really deserved. Eomicbooks: (Eo)