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flesh, my garments; groaned, howled, shrieked, in frantic agony. Towards morning, a stream of blood gushed from my nose and lips, and, mingling with ta flood of tears, a kindly and copious shower, recalled me from the verge of insanity. The first collected thought which returning sense presented was, a determination to avoid the man whose value I had learned too late, and by whom I had been beloved in my days of peace and innocence. I procured, as the day advanced, the implements of writing, and traced the characters delivered to your hand; presaging, but too truly, your humane solicitude.
"'At this period, I felt suddenly awakened, as it were, to a new existence
