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[[underlined]] November 3d. [[/underlined]]

You don't know what the position of an heiress is! You can't imagine. There is no one in all the world who loves her for herself. No one. She cannot do this, that, and the other simply because she is forever in sight & will be talked about. Everything she does or says is discussed, everyone she speaks to she is suspected of going to marry, everyone she loves, loves her for what she has got, and earth is hell unless she is
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a fool and then its heaven. The few people who are not snobs but the very ones she wants will not be seen with her because they won't be called worldly. Her friends flatter & praise her to her face only to criticize & pick her to pieces behind her back. The world points at her & says "watch what she does, who she likes, who she sees, remember is in an heiress" and those who seem most to forget this fact are those who really remember it most vividly. The fortune hunter chases her foot-steps with protestations of never