The Fatal Secret

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Excerpt from The Fatal Secret: And Other StoriesThey said that you had faithless grown, That gold had Wiled your love from me But my firm heart was constant still, And thought that false you could not be, It thought that truth and constancy Within your bosom dwellers were, My love no ill Of you could think And are you then so false and fair - nicoll.HE terrible events of this true story occurred some years ago, before steam-cars or telegraph wires had been invented, or cruel laws with extreme penalties for slight offences had been repealed: While yet all distant communications were made through special messengers, or slow mail-carriers, and all travelling accomplished by private conveyances, or public stage-coaches that rumbled over bad turnpike roads infested by foot-pads and mounted highwaymen, while yet gentlemen and doctors of divinity were executed for counterfeiting or forgery, and poor servant girls hanged for stealing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.