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A NOVEL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WILDERNESS OF THE WORLD."

You are ambitious."

SHAKSPEARE.

"As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow,
While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below;
So the cheek may be ting'd with a warm sunny smile,
Tho' the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while."

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T. CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER,

30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

1857.

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

249. W. 529.

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H. P. L. DREW, ESQ.,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,

AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT,

BY HIS OBLIGED, OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

DISSIMULATION.

CHAPTER I.

THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE.

EDITH CAMERON had left her situation to become the wife of Major Raymond; he had drawn her gradually into a correspondence after he left Westbury, nor would he rest until he had appropriated this little simple floweret to himself by a private marriage, for not all her love nor his eloquent persuasions could prevail on Edith to deviate from the paths of virtue. Her pure soul shrunk from the very contemplation of vice with the utmost abhorrence. She had witnessed VOL. III.

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