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`Dearest girl—

`Although we are unknown to each other,
I love you. When and where I have
seen you, I need not explain, but I have beheld
you often, and never without longing to
speak with you, and to make known to you
the sentiments of my heart. Excuse this
mode of addressing you, and grant me an
interview to-night at your own house.

Richard Marvin.