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by Johnson and Mollie never saw it.
Instead, James told her that he’d received communication from her father granting permission for her to stay with her aunt until autumn.
A few months later, another letter from her father arrived, this one reaching Mollie's hands and repeating the order that she return.
“But to return home could not be thought of. Shame and degradation would soon overtake her under her father’s roof. It was but too evident to her mind that she carried wjthin her bosom the germinating fruit of a guilty passion, for which she had bartered her eternal happiness, welfare and peace of mind,” the author of the report maintained.
Mollie wrote her father that she was ill “and went so far as to have her fair tresses shaven close, in order the better to impose the deceit.”
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