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LETTER LXIV. In Answer to a Letter in which...

Fire Island Beach, August 22, 1913.
Sir:

I acknowledge the receipt of your last letter which now lies before me, and in which you convey the intimation that the position in which, for sometime past, we have regarded each other must henceforth be abandoned. Until the receipt of this letter, I had regarded you in the light of my future husband; you were, therefore, as you have reason to know, so completely the possessor of my affections, that I looked with indifference upon every other suitor. The remembrance of you had never failed to enhance the pleasures of daily life, and you were in my thoughts at the very moment in which I received this most unkind and unexpected letter. But deem me not so devoid of proper pride is to wish you to revoke your determination, from which I will not attempt to dissuade you, whether it may have been made in cool deliberation, or in precipitate haste. Sir, I shall endeavor to banish you from my affections, as readily and completely as you appear to have banished me from yours; and all that I shall now require is, that you will return to me whatever letters you may have of mine, and which I may have written under a mistaken confidence in your attachment, and when you were accredited as the future husband of, sir,

Yours, etc.,

Patty Pomkroy.
To George Grimes, Esq.

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