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Updated: May 13, 2025

I sped away, obviously, into the city-to alleged meetings with friends or clients or on some pretence or other which seemed ordinary and natural But my course was to return, and, under cover of night, to prowl, around my own premises, like some guilty ghost, doomed to haunt the scene of former happiness, in its wantonness rendered a scene of ever-during misery.

William Gilmore Simms - Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story