For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to … - James Payn

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James Payn

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

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