“In vain she told herself that he was unworthy any woman's trust and love, still the unconquerable sentiment that once made her happiness now remained to become her torment.”

—  Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

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American novelist 1832–1888

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