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will occasion ? Is it for this that you 
have retired? Or, is it to select what 
is most necessary and most becoming 
from your wardrobe, and to trust your 
happiness to so dangerous a chance ? 
If it is the latter, simple maiden, 
call to mind that around my bouquet 
is entwined the serpent, and that in 
cherishing the Flowers of passion you 
will sooner or later suffer from the 
bitter fangs of remorse. 
“ E ver y one is aware what an in¬ 
fliction upon this land is the law of 
libel now-a-days, we cannot abuse 
our friends behind their backs, unless 
in a whisper; and, as for writing any 
thing, it is five hundred to one that 
