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"Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good-night, till it be morrow."
Shakespeare.
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The day appointed for Alice's ill-starred nuptials draws near with ill-omened celerity. Anxious consultations and meetings at the trysting-place with her Saxon lover become most frequent as the fatal day approaches.