Shall the right I have asserted to live apart from my husband be followed by cutting off every desire, by marring or concealing every beauty, by devoting the remainder of a life, already cursed by an involuntary indiscretion of youth, to asceticism, and so continue in another form the struggle against nature to the end?—or accept the creed of the man I love, and seek also my highest happiness in the gratification of that love, which every instinct of my being approves? And my answer to this final question is before you and all the world. As I said at first, dear, I have no misgivings about the sincerity of your affection for me, under any changes of life; and I feel just as sure that you will never doubt the constant, undying friendship of Your LITTLE MARY. TO MRS. ——, LONDON. Transcriber’s Notes pg 15 Changed: moment makes all vears to: moment makes all years pg 39 Changed: the dispair that was in me to: the despair that was in me