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Belladonna and
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The Poison Flower, as if her promise to marry had brought death upon her lovers. She heard women whispering behind her back,
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If I were a man I simply shouldn't _dare_ be engaged to her in spite of her millions ; and what she did not hear she imagined. She in her turn grew superstitious, or so it was said. She began to feel that there must be something fatal about her; that a curse which the father of Perry and Ned was said to have pronounced on her parents in his first fury at losing a fortune had been visited on her. Though she had twice come near her wedding she had never yet deeply loved a man; nevertheless, because of the