I acknowledge your right to be informed of the events that have lately happened in my family. In the midst of my despair, I do not disdain to contribute what little I can to the benefit of mankind. Yet the tale that I am going to tell is not intended as a claim upon your sympathy. Hence your efforts at consolation must necessarily fail. You are a stranger to the depth of my distresses. You know not fully the cause of my sorrows.
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