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circumstances in which you have been

very particularly interested. Allow me to ask you one question: can you see in my features or countenance a resemblance to any person that you have known?" Our hero looked a few moments and started. "I certainly have seen a face very like yours, but you are not she." "I am not; but to cut the matter short, my maiden name was Collings, Joanna Collings, the elder sister of Jenny Collings, your Jenny Collings, now the wife of a rich booby squire." "I thought, said our hero, that lady was the wife of a clergyman." "She is, but has proved herself totally unworthy of such a husband. My story, Sir, is short and simple; but were it told, full of warning instruction." The ghost actor now making his appearance, interrupted this conversation, and pointing to his wounded head, said, "Mrs.

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