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marked with the name that I deem so sinister 

 and so unsuitable. 



I shall never forget how profoundly affected 

 I was, in the early summer of 1897, when 



Lady Benzoline Brinsmead, to whom I was 

 then affianced, reluctantly jilted me on the 

 grounds that it was absolutely impossible for 

 her to assume such a name as mine. I had 



