THE MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE. A True Romance of New York Life.
"Did I love her? Ah, Bishop! did I love her? If I had not, do you think I would have followed her, day after day, week after week? and after that fatal hour in Philadelphia—do you think I would have knelt to her, would have implored her to become mine? If I had not loved her, do you think I would have suffered all the contumely, the scorn and misery which she heaped upon me—would I have haunted her night and day, even when I heard she had become the vilest of the vile? Had she possessed in a year as much love for me as I did for her in one short, fleeting hour, I would not have been your Confidant, nor she what she is now, an enemy whom I will pursue to the death. From the bower of Love, there is but one step for the mind of man, and that is to the dark chambers of Hate. I have taken the step!"—Page 63.
Philadelphia:
T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS,
306 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by T. B. PETERSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
