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knew until my poor friend
consented to cover that friend's terrible position—she was an inexperienced girl, Mr. Brookes—by personating the child's mother, she had not the slightest idea of the terrible complications that would ensue, and that the child's father was her own husband; that latter fact she never knew until my poor friend, suddenly stricken down, with his dying breath hinted at the terrible secret, and asked for her forgiveness."
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 3 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

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