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Jane Fairacre, standing with her vicar husband, wept to see
her friend happy at last. Lord and Lady Ashwood, satisfied they had done their
best for both their daughter and their son, smiled benignly upon one and all.
James Earlywine, standing beside Lord Sherbourne before the clergyman,
complimented himself on saving the viscount’s betrothal by his own to Miss
Thibeau—a state of affairs not to be regretted since James thereby gained a
beautiful and passionate woman for his own. Miss Earlywine, her eyes glistening
with unshed tears at the beauty and excitement of it all, dreamed blissfully of
the day
she
would stand before the world as a bride. And far away near
London in the still-rural area of Great Marlow, Mary Shelley congratulated
herself on saving a friend’s happiness while a pensive poet dreamed of love
with no bounds and of sailing across the limitless ocean.

The End

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