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FEBRUARY 20.

God bless you, my dear friends, and may he grant you that happiness which he

denies to me!

I thank you, Albert, for having deceived me. I waited for the news that your

wedding-day was fixed; and I intended on that day, with solemnity, to take down

Charlotte’s profile from the wall, and to bury it with some other papers I possess.

You are now united, and her picture still remains here. Well, let it remain! Why

should  it  not?  I  know  that  I  am  still  one  of  your  society,  that  I  still  occupy  a

place  uninjured  in  Charlotte’s  heart,  that  I  hold  the  second  place  therein;  and  I

intend  to  keep  it.  Oh,  I  should  become  mad  if  she  could  forget!  Albert,  that

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thought is hell! Farewell, Albert farewell, angel of heaven farewell, Charlotte!