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lost [[underline]] his love [[/underline]] Love, Gratitude, & unsuspecting confidence (3 cardinal vices in this wise World) have degraded [[underline]] me from my [[/underline]] rank in society But all is deceitful, -- "the exulting demon of the storm" broods in secret among the deeps, & [[underline]] tempests [[/underline]] are preparing As if she could stoop to such copartnership or that she who is the hour of unbounded tenderness had yielded herself [[addition]] ^ up [[/addition]] to one [[addition]] ^ of [[/addition]] whose heart she felt herself secure, -- wd afterwards submit to hold a lesser rank in his perverted affections -- & lost alike in the estimation of the World & of herself accept the stolen endearments of a man who could no longer consider her as the equal partner of a virtuous
