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Where'er a blade of grass doth nod. Or wave of water ripples o'er. There—even whore is none save God— T 00, kneel and disbelieve no morel 311aC3(i3WT-411a3lairDISRo EMILY, Or the Stranger. AN INTERESTING TALE OF REAL LIFE. On the road between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton in Shropshire,lies the beau. tiful and picturesque village of Hoduct. It consists of but one street on the declivity of a sunny ,side of a hill; the principal or ra ther the only Inn in the place is the Blue Boar; it is situated nearly opposite the pub lic market, hall or place in which nearly all the public meetings are held, being alter nately converted into a dancing school, theatre, methodist chapel, ball room,&c., as occasion may require. The church is a little further oil, and the parsonage is as usual, a white house surrounded with trees at one end of the village. The stage coach passes through the village three times a week, and one evening in the month of February it stopped as usual at the door of the Inn, and a strange gentleman wrapped in a blue travelling cloak, alighted, the dri • ver handed him a portmanteau and the coach drove on. The stranger entered the Blue Boar, was shown into the parlor and desired Cie landlord to bring him a pint of wine. The order was quickly obey ed, and the wine set upon the table and the host proceeded to rouse the sleeping em bers of the fire, remarking at the same time that it vies a cool, raw night. His guest assented by a nod. Then he said enquiringly, "You call this the village Ho. duct, do you noti" "Yes sir," said the host, "And a prettier place is not to be found in all England." "So I have heard," said the stranger, "and as you are not upon one of the great roads, I believe ye? have the reputation of being a primitive and unsoph. iscated set of people." "Why, as to that air," said the host, "I cannot exactly speak'; but, if there's no harm in it, I dare any we are. But you see, I'm only vintner, and don't trouble my head about these matters." "Si, much the better," said the stranger smiling. "You and 1 shall become better friends; I may stay with you for weeks per haps for months. In the mean time let me have something"comfortable for supper, and desire your wife to prepare me a clean good bed." "I will, sir," said the host,' and ma king one of his most rtrofJundest bows, re tired to give the requisite orders, inspired with the deepest respect for his unexpected guest. 'fhe next day was 'Sunday. 'f he bells of the village (urch had - just ceased ring when the stranger. walked up the aisle, and entered at random a pew which hap. pencil to be vacant. Instantly every Pve was turned towards him, for a new face was too important an object in Hoduct to tie left unnoticed. 4 , Who is he?—When did he eture?— With whom does he stayl —how long will he be here?— Do you think he is handsome?" These and a thousand other questions flaw about in whispers from 'one to another, whilst the conscious object of all this inter est cast his eye calmly yet periptratingly around upon the whole congregation. Nor was it all to be wondered at that his appear. ance had caused a sensation is Hoduct, for he was not that kind of person whom one meets every day. There was something both in his face and figure. that distinguish ed him from the crowd. You could not look upon hint once and then turn away with indifference. When the service was over, the stranger walked out of church alone, and remained seated in his parlor at the As Boar the remain. der of the day. As may be supposed, spe culation was busy at work at more than ohe tea table in IHloduct that evening, and con jectures were poured forth with the tea, and swallowed with the toast. A few days had elapsed, and the stran ger was forgotten; for there was to be a subscription ball in Hoduct; which entirely engrossed the minds of villagers; so impor tant an event not having taken place in a half century before. Great preparations were made, and at length the important night arrived; at one o'clock, which was considered a fashionable hour, the hall was nearly full, and the first country dance (for quadrilles were not known to the people of Hoduct,) was led off by the oldest son of the old squire of the village, who conducted the chosen divinity of his heart, the only daughter of one of the Justices of the coun ty of Shropshire, gracefully through its mazes. Enjoyment was at :ts height,when merriment was suddenly checked and more than usual bustle pervaded the room. The stranger had entered it; and there was something so different in hie looks and manners from any of the other male crea tures present, that every body surveyed him with renewed curiosity, which woe at first tinctured with awe. "Who can that' be?" was the question that instantly started up like a crocusin many maiden's throbbing bosom. "He knows nobody, and nobody knows him; surely he never will think of asking any body to dance." For a long time the stranger stood aloof from the dancers in a corner of the ream by himself, and they were almost beginning to forget he was present. But he was not idle, he was attentively observing every group and every individual in the room, and, judging from the various expressions of his countenance, one would have thought he could have read a character at a glance. He did not seem to regard the generality of the company with a very favorable eye.— At length,however,something like a change appeared to come over his dream. His eyes fell on Emily Somers, and appeared to rest where they fell with no small degree of pleasure. No wonder—Emily is not what is gerierally called beautiful; but there was a sweetness, a modesty, a gentleness about her,that charmed the more the longer it was observed. Her winning smiles, her unclouded temper drew a hallowed influ ence around her, wherever she went. She was the only child of a widowed mother.— Her father was an officer in the army, and fell in battle, and the pension of an officer's widow was all they had to support them.— It was to Emily Somers that the stranger first addressed himself, and asked her to dance with him. Emily had never seen him before of course; but concluded he had come with some of her friends, and being but little acquainted with the arbitrary rules of etiquette, she immediately with a frank artlessness smiled an acceptance of his request, and they joined the merry dan cers on the light fantastic toe. At the close of the evening's amusements, the stranger requested permission to accompany Mrs. and Miss Somers to their residence which was granted; and upon taking leave for the night, he asked if lie might be permitted to visit them the next day, which was assent. ed to by Miss Somers. On the following morning he called to pay his respects to them and so won upon their favor by his pleasing and gentlemanly behaviour, that he was soon allowed to be their daily visi tor at Joy Cottage, but notwithstanding his apparent intimacy, which was observed with no small degree of jealousy by some of the female villagers of Hoduct, he re• mained almost as great a stranger at the Cottage as when they first became acquain ted with him; except he had told them that his name was Frederick Burleigh, that he was a single young man and of a respecta ble family. The village gossips wore not sparing in their remarks of wonder and astonishment, that. Mrs. Somers would allow a person whom she never saw before the night of the ball, to become a daily visitor at her house; it was very imprudent wasn't ii; for aught she knew, he might be a married man, a swindler, or what not? Such was the scan dal of the village. Mrs. Somers, however, regarded not the idle. talk of the neighbors, which she looked upon as the offspring of envy and jealousy; for to a well cultivated mind she added considerable experience of the world, - therefore it did not take her long to discover that their new friend was in every sense of, the word, a man whose habits and manners entitled him to the name and rauk of a gentleman; and she thought, too, that she saw in him, after a short in tercouise, many of those noble qualities which raises an individual . to a high and merited rank among his fellow men: As for Emily, she loved hie vociety,ehe scarce ly knew why; yet when she endeavored to discover the cause, she found at no dif f icult matter to convince herself that there was G. W.S.CIIINGTON BOWEN, MIDITOR. 'PROPTIMTOI%. si The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely,le above all other Itberties."—lSln.Ton. 621E1 4 01rOZIWZISE, /Pgagio unanealpart. attrzx 1389 aist.dac. something about him infinitely superior . to all the then she had ever seen before, that she was only obeying the dictates of reason, in proportion as she became acquainted with him, and this sentiment indeed, seemed mutual, for he spent his time almost con tinually in her society. The stranger was fond of music, and Emily, besides being proficient on the piano, possessed a very fine natural voice, which she had cultivated with great care, and consequently played and sung with great taste and judgment.— Nor did she sing and play unrewarded; for Burleigh taught her the language of Pet. rarch and Tasso—the most enchanting of all modern languages, and being well vers ed id the use of the pencil, he taught her how to give a landscape a richer and bold er effect. They read together, and as they looked a ith a smile intu each other's coun tenances, the fascinating pages of fiction seemed to acquire a tenfold interest: These were evenings not only of calm, and dear delight, but of deep felt happiness—long to be remembered. Spring flew rapidly on, March, with her winds and clouds, passed away; April, with her showers and sunsfune,no longer linger. ed, and May came up, the blue—blue sky scattered her roses over the green surface of creation. The stranger entArgd the little garden of Joy Cottage one Ming be fore sunset. Emily saw him from the win dow and came out to meet him. She hold in her hand an open letter. 'This is from my cousin Henry,' said she, his regiment has returned from the continent, and he will be with us tomorrow or the next day. We shall be so glad to see him. You have often heafd us talk of Henry! He and 1 were playmates when we were children; and tho' it is a long time since we parted, 1 am sure I should know him again among a hundred men. 'lndeed!' said the stranger almost starling, 'you then must have loved him very much and very constantly too.' '0 yes! I loved him as a brother,' Burleigh 'breathed more easily. 'I am sure you will love him too,' Emily added. 'Every body whom you love, and who loves you, I almost love, Miss Somers. But I shall not see your cousin, at present. I must leave Ho. duct to morrow!' Emily grew vary pale, and leaned for supper' on a sun dial near which they where standing. 'Good hea vens! that emotion—enn it be possible? Miss Somers—Emily—is it to part with me you are thus grieved?' 'Your departure, sir, is so sudden,' said Emily, 'so unexpected— are you never to return again—are we never to see you more?' Do you wish me to return? do , you indeed wish to see me again?"oh, how can you ask it?' 'Emily, hitherto I have been known to you under a cloud of mystery—as a solitary being with out friends or acquaintances in the world- an outcast apparently from society—either sinned against or sinning—without fortune or expectancy of tortune—and with all these disadvantages to contend with, bow can suppose that lam indebted to any thing but your pity for the kindness you have shown me?' Pity! what pity you! Oh, Frederick! do not wrong yourself thus.— No! though you were a thousand times less worthy than I know you aro, I should. She stopped confused, and a deep blush spread over her face; she burst into tears and would have sunk to the around had not her lover caught her in his arms. 'Think of me thus,' he whispered, till we' meet again, and we may both be happy.' .01 I will think of thee thus forever!' They had reached the cottage door. 'God bless you, Emily,' said the stranger, 'I dare not see your mother—tell her of my departure, and that ere Autumn has faded into winter, I shall be here again. Farewell dearest, Farewell. He left a hot hurried kiss upon her cheek; and when she ventured to look around her, he was gone. Henry arrived the next day, but there was a gloom upon the spirits of both moth er and danghter, which it took some time to dispel. Mrs. Somers felt more for Emily . than for herself. She now perceived that her child's future happiness depended more upon the honor of the stranger than she had been aware of, and she trembled to think of the probability that in the busy world, he might forget the very existence of Hoduct, or any of its inhabitants. Emily enter tained better hopes,but they were the result probably of the sanguine unsuspicious tem perament of youth. Her cousin, mean while, exerted himself to the utmost to render himself agreeable. He was a young, frank, handsome soldier, who had leaped into the middle of many a lady's heart— but be was not destined to leap into Ein ily's. She had enclosed it in too strong a hue of circumvolution. After three month's Beige it was found to be impregnable. So Henry, who really loved Emily next to hie king and country, thinking it folly to endan ger his peace or waste his time any longer, one morning shook Mrs:'Somers and Emi ly by the hand, and took his departure to join his regiment again. Autumn came; the leaves grew red, brownaellow and purple, then droped from the branches of the trees, and lay in rust ling heaps upon the path below. The last lingering wain conveyed from the fields their golden treasure. The days were bright, clear, calm and chill: the nights were full of stare, and the ground wet with dews, which ere the morning dawned, was changed into a silver boar frost: The rob• in hopped across the garden.walke, but the stranger came not. Darker days and lon ger nights succeeded. The trees were stripped of their foliage, and the fields had lost their verdure. Winter burst upon the earth, and storms went careering through the firmament. Put still thestranger came not. The lustre of Emily's eyes grew dim; yet she smiled and looked as if she would have made herself believe that there was hope. And so there was; for the coach once mere stopped at the Blue Boar; and the stranger wrapped in his blue travelling cloak, once more alighted from it. Lan guage cannot convey to the reader the de. light experienced by Mrs. Somers and her daughter at the return of the stranger, who had so faithfully and honorably reamed his pledge. Emily's eyes soon regained their wonted lustre. But still there was an other trial to be made. Would she marry him? In putting the question, he said, 'my family is respectable, and it is not wealth I seek, I have an independence, equal, I should hope, to our wishes; but any thing else which you may think mysterious about me, I cannot uhravel until you are iodise°. lubly mine.' It was a point of no slight difficulty—Emily entrusted its decision en tirely to her mother. Her mother found that the stranger was inflexible in his pur pose, and she also saw that her child's future happiness was inextricably linked.with him. What could she do? It had been better, perhaps, if they had never known him, and thinking so highly of him as they did, there was no alternative, the risk must be run. It was run; they were married in HoduCt, and immediately after the ceremony they stopped into a carriag e and drove away nobody know where. We will not infringe upon the sacred happiness of such a journey upon such an occasion, by allowing our profane thoughts to dwell upon it. It is e nough to know that in the afternoon of the following day, they entered an extensive and noble park, and came in sight of a magnif icent Gothic mansion. Emily expressed her admiration of its appearance; and her young husband, gazing upon her with im passioned delight, exclaimed, 'My Emily it is thine! my mind was impressed with er• roueous impressions of women. I believed that their affections were to he won only by flattering their vanity or dazzling their ambition• I was resolved that unless I was loved only for myself, . 1 would never be lov ed at all. With this view I travelled through the country incognito; I came to Hoduct and I saw you. I have tried you in every way and found you true. It was I and not my fortune that you married, but both are thine. We are now arrived at Burleigh House; it is the seat of my ances tors; your husband is Frederick Augustus Burleigh Cecil, Earl of Exeter, and you, my dearest Emily are his countess!'--For. eign Magazine. DEFERRED NEWS. TII E ROMANTIC AFFAlR—Jumping into the Schuylkill—A Man and Girl fished up tied together—The unromantic. finale. A boy, fishing on the Schuylkill, last week, had his hook fastened, and on draw. ing up, it was found that the dead body of a man and a young woman had been caught. They had been tied together, a rm-in arm, with a handkerchief. The girl bad a pistol in her bosom, and the man had one in his pocket. The town, for several days, was very considerably excited with the general impression that this had been one of those romantic love affairs, which come about, at the dictum of the poet, who sung of old, that i.True love never did run smooth." But all the romance was subsequently put to flight by a discovery. This went to declare that neither of the parties was any better than other people, and, it is general. ly reported, not quite so good. The man had been familiarly known as Chester Coun ty George, and the girl was named Eliza Farrel, (or "little Liz,") of, nobody knows exactly where. They had both lived for years, on rum, vagabondiaing, and, especial. ly the girl, by the "wages of ein,"—and, it is generally believed, that in a fit of disqui etude, resulting from their miserable lives, they tied themselves and jumped into the Schuylkill. Oh, what a lesson should this read to all who turn aside from the paths of virtue, in which only can happiness be found!—Phila. Sat. Cour. WELVE WE Ann Comm Tog—The edi tor of the Kennebec Journal says that "the quantity of grain manufactured into whiskey will be some millions of bushels less than last year, if the Temperance Reform goes ahead; there will be less work for lawyers, doctors, grog-sellers, sheriffs, constables, police courts, jailors and hangmen." HAPPY EFFECTS OF TEMPERANCE RE. FORM IN lIIELAND.—The following unusual information is taken from a letter written by a gentleman of Dublin, to the "Leeds Mer cury:" "Our public hospitals bear abundant evi dence also of the improved health of the people. I was informed lately by a young surgeon, that the want of broken limbs dm. is severely felt, as subjects for young prac titioners; also, that there is a greatly in creased difficulty in getting bodies for die. section. In our largest hospitals there has been but one case of delirium tremens (whis key fever) for several months past, and oven that a doubtful one, although formerly it was not uncommon to have twenty or thirty at one time. Deaths from fever have much decreased." , • A THIEF DETECTOR has been invented bye Mr. W. P. Banher, of Boston, which iti_a piece of machinery introduced into locks, and attached to an air chamber.— When the Machinery, is set in motion, it opens a whistle like that attached to locomo tives, which continues to blow and sound an alarm until the machine is run down. DIEREGARD OP THE LAWB.—There theme to be prevalent to a great extent through- out the country, a feeling which, if it .con tinues to grow and spread with the rapidity with which it has done of late, augurs the worst consequences to the good order of so. ciety, and the just administration of the laws. We allude to that feeling which leads hot.headed and inconsiderate persons to resist the operation of propor and saluta ry legal enactments, and incites them to as. semble together, and with all the fury which governs a law-less mob, to commit acts dithgraceful to , themselves, and often times highly , injurious, and even destructive to innocent persons. It is moat important that this state of things should bo corrected, and a greater, regard and reverence for the laws be encouraged. These reflections have arisen in our mind, upon the perusal of an account of a transaction related in the Cincinnati Republican, which forcibly illua trates what we here complain of. Two individuals named Mayth and Couch had been confined in the jail in Grant County, Ky. for several weeks, , charged with (and no doubt guilty of) an attempt to murder Mr. Utterback, a drover; who, it is said, has been lingering in a miserable state, with his throat horribly mangled. He is a citizen of Bourbon county, adjoin ing Grant, whore the excitement has been very great since the atrocious deed was committed. As Mr. Utterback still sur. awes, and as there is some likelihood he will recover, though in a very maimed con. dition, and the felons thus escape punish. ment, the. people of . Bourbon determined that they should be executed at any rate. They accordingly deputed ten individuals to visit' Williamstown, whore the prisoners were confined, and give information that their execution was to 'take place in thirty. six hours from that time. When the time arrived, about $OO citizens of Bourbon en. tered Williamstown in solemn procession, and proceeded with their own Sheriflii to the jail and demanded the prisoners. • Their demand being refused, they proceeded to • break open the doors, and having seized the prisonera, placed them with irons on' in an open wagon, and took up thcir line of march to the spot where the crime was committed. Upon arriving there they hung them up with their irons on, to a'tree, beneath which the attempt to murder had been made. When life was extinct, they were taken down and buried under the gal lows in very rude coffins. —Balt. Pat. ADVANTAGE OF SCIENCE.-Mr. Hol• brook, of Medway, the celebrated bell. founder, who has put up a clock upon the Baptist church in this town the present week, gave us a little incident of his life, which is worth relating, if for nothing more than to show the importance of a knowl edge of chemistry. An immense pile of cinders, and dross-had accumuleted near his foundry, which was supposed to be entirely worthless, and was used to fill up stone wallso&c. A foreigner who happened to be in town examined the pile one day, and offered $lOO for it. So large a price exci ted Mr. H's suspicions that the cinders might Contain valuable metal, and he de clined selling it—The man then offered $2OO, which of cource confirmed his ()pin ion, and, alter a little parley, the stranger acknowleged that he was acquainted with a process of which valuable metal might be extracted from the cinders, which he offered to divulge tor a small compensation. A furnace and apparatus were constructed according to his direction, and, when the whole pile was run through, the amass of neglected rubbish yielded a nett profit of thirteea thousand dollars.—So muck for knowing "how to do it."—Lynn Freeman. . A MATRIMONIAL Vuteirr.—The Spring. field (Ill) Journal cautions the public against a man calling himself A. D. Young, 25. or 30 years old, a cabinet maker, who says he learned his trade in Buffalo, N. Y. who has just married three or more wives off band: ono in Ohio; the second in Indiana; where he ran away six months afterward, and the third near Springfield, IllinOis, after having been engaged to and nearly marrying a girl at Danville in that State, before his charac. ter followed him there. He was married to his Illinois wife on the 13th of April, ran away from her on the 2nd of May, and has probably another pretty well courted. in . lowa by this time. We hate to say an ill-natured thing—still more an ungallant one—but if young women will marry the , first good-looking stranger who asks thorn, must they not expect that villains will make a business of deceiving and marrying them? PIINNULVANIA. HALL.—The jury. In the case of the Pennsylvania Hall, which, it will be recollected, was set on fire, had more than thirty metings, before coming t6ii\Vr• diet of damages. On Tuesday, five of th m reported damages at 89,000 dollars, and the sixth made a counter report, awarding nothing. It will be recollected that the damages originally claimed, were set down at 120,000 dollars. the report will now come up before the Judges of the Conn. of General Sessions.—Phi/a. Cour. A Bro . 'os.—The skeleton .of the Mis sourium—the immense animal found in Benton county, Missonri, by Mr. KOch— is now being exhibited at Cincinnati. It measures thirty-two feet in length, and fit teen in height; the head is six feet an length; the tusks are ten feet long. The tail is remarkably abort in proportion to the other parts, being only two feet six inches and a halt long. 117 1 .2Et(02.0 41 3 (Do 621041- THU SCIIOOLXASiTR AND H 1.3 SCH OL- An.—A achooiontster hearing one el his Feholers read, the'boy, when he came to the word honor, pronounced it full; the master told him that it should be pronoUrieed'with• out the h, as thus—onor. "Very.wert, replied the lad, "I will remember for. the future." "Ay," said the master, drop the h." The next morning', the mai ter's tea, with a hot muffin a had been brought' to the desk, but theduties of his avocatteut, i made him Wait till t was cold; when ao;,= dressing the same boy, he told him to.takti it to the fire and heat it. "Yee, atrrie• plied the scholar, and taking` it to the fire, ate it. Presently the master called for his muffin. "I ate it, as you bade nie," said the boy. "Ate it you rogue! I.bade you take it to the fire and heat it." "But air.". said the lad," yesterday you told me always to drop thel." Every married woman should haves re:. male friend whom ahe can consult about the beat way of managing her'husbund: , . A furious wife, like a musket, may do a great deal of execution in her house; but then she make. a great noise in if' at the same time. A mild wile will, like an air gun, act with no much power without being heard. The MassachUsetts Spy, states that the editor can recollect ol no instance) in which a child was-killed by lightping—ot rather we believe, the editor Bays a friend of his gays 80. On the contrary, he knows of several iristancee in which adults were killed and children who were present es. caged unhurt. TEXAS Courourres..;—.l. W. Dallam, Bub Attorney at Law, at Matagorda, Tex as, now '4711 a visit to Baltimore, has left with us for the inspection of the curious, a glass jar, containing one horned frog—two centipieds—one joint inake—one garter snake—and one small chicken snake, ma king altogether as curious a group ofreptiles as is seldom ever seen--Balt. Pat. A paper manufacterer in Ghent* has dia. covered that the refuse ends 'of 'asparagus make excellent paper, at half the expense of paper Dom rags, and that a still greater economy is obtained by mixing the pulp of asparagus with that of, the beet root., A Petarar's SZNTIXENT.—GeneraI liar. neon' s said to have given the follow,ing toast at Cincinnati in 1830: • ..Our Country—Find, !Bet and &revert", It is a beautiful sentiment, and ninetieth that ardent love of country in hie bosom, which manifeeted itself even in- his last words: , SiMk:MAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT. A ,. young man employed in •a Grocery on Myrtle Avenue, was on Tuesday morning wounded in the stomach by the bursting of a pen•holder, which he was loading and discharging after - the fashion of .a pistel:— The pen, which remained in the holder m• flitted the wounds; and caused his dead' the next morning.—Brooklyn,News. METORIC grenz.--We learn from the North American,that Professor Froost, ins a late Geological Report to the Legislature of Tennessee, describes a metoric storm which fell near Crosby'e.Creek, the origi nal weight ot which was two' thousand pounds. his not known when it - fell.— Professoi Freest says, that from a brilliant steel polish oneome parts of the mass, it was supposed to be silver ore by the in habitants of the vicinity, and was divided into fragments, which are highly valued. One man asks 1500 dollars for , a piece which would not be worth that sum by awn, hundred dollars if it were pure Aver. LARGE TGRTLE.-A sea turtle, welh ing five hundred pounds, arrived m this city . on Thursday week by the ears, and passed on to Washington, through Baltimore, the nest morning. It was a present to Presi dent Tyler, from some friends in New York, and was served up for his 4th of.Tuly dinner. . GROWTH OF TUEI W*sT.—The Richmond Whig, in publishing- ti table of the populto. tion of the Statile of the Union remarks:— Whilst the South has receded, and the North been barelY able to maintain its own, the Great West hos gone ahead with ,a hundred horse power. In her hands are the future destinies of the Republic. the next Congress she will havo a greater rep; resentation 'than either the North or the South, singly; and by the next Census, in 1850, sho will exceed them both combined. ' According to a well known Gaelic pro verb, "If the best man e s faults were winten on his forehead, it. would make.htm pall his hat over hie eyes." PoveuTr.---One solitary ,. phtlocapber may bo great,•v ittuons - and happy In the depth of poverty,, hut net whote people. _Seven hundred females, conguitted cide in'Praciee.lll9t year; iiintpserityithireie hundred . GUNNING EXTR AORDINARY I—Meier& Robert Sinclair and John P. Moore, of New York, went' nut irunning on the dth, pod contrived to bug seventy head of Woodcock AND ORR MAN! Mr. M Lovingnceldeurtido ly shot his companion, but not, hoirtint. woundliog hint ino-tan).
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