"Why?"
"Because I was poor, and burdensome, and she disliked me."
"But Reed left children? -- you must have cousins? Sir George
Lynn was talking of a Reed of Gateshead yesterday, who, he said,
was one of the veriest rascals on town; and Ingram was mentioning
a Georgiana Reed of the same place, who was much admired for her
beauty a season or two ago in London."
"John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined
his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide. The news
so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack."
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