his sweetheart:

April 4, 1793

I shall not taste food until I marry you, and if I do not marry you I shall remain faithful to this vow of mine until it perishes with me! I have resolved to let nothing in existence turn me from this purpose. If Gunn does not perform the marriage ceremony, I shall die! Oh Augusta, my heart's blood!

Years later, a dispute arose in court over who should inherit the Duke's title from the deceased father. This letter was read out in court, and in it lay all the proof needed to show that the Duke had violated the laws of the land—and so his son was deprived of his title!

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And love letters—how often have they been a cause of misery! Love letters, my reader: write them on the sand, but never set them down on paper!

A bachelor was searching for a partner for his life. He made the acquaintance of a candidate of real possibilities, spoke to her on the subject, and mentioned to her in the course of the conversation that he was "a man of few words." The girl pleased him, and he was utterly taken with her; no sooner had he reached his house on returning from a visit to her than he took up his paper and pen and wrote her this letter, quite forgetting his "fewness of words":

My dear:

A thousand thanks, and another thousand thanks, for your kind, dear acceptance of my request for your hand. Since meeting you, I have gone over at least twice everything you said to me, and the sweet music of your words has begun to ring delightfully in my ears, like a beautiful melody I am hearing for the first time!

Days passed, circumstances changed, and our friend became once again "a man of few words": he wrote to his fiancée and informed her that "everything is over!"

Over for him—but for her, nothing was over... She took her case to court, which fined him a sum not to be sneezed at. On what basis? You have guessed it, my

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