He says he is too poor for us to dream of marrying when I have nothing . Oh , such a cruel , heartless letter ! Why did he not kill me ? It would have been so much more merciful ! I loved him so -- I trusted him so ! Oh , Winnie , Winnie , what am I to do ! ' `` There was something terrible in the contrast between her passionate words and her calm face and lifeless voice . I wanted to call Mother , but she would not let me . She went away to her own room , trailing along the dark hall in her dress and veil , and locked herself in . `` Well , I told it all to the others in some fashion . You can imagine their anger and dismay . Your father , Amy -- he was a hot-blooded , impetuous , young fellow then -- went at once to seek Willis Starr . But he was gone , no one knew where , and the whole country rang with the gossip and scandal of the affair . Eliza knew nothing of this , for she was ill and unconscious for many a day . In a novel or story she would have died , I suppose , and that would have been the end of it . But this was in real life , and Eliza did not die , although many times we thought she would . `` When she did recover , how frightfully changed she was ! It almost broke my heart to see her . Her very nature seemed to have changed too -- all her joyousness and light-heartedness were dead . From that time she was a faded , dispirited creature , no more like the Eliza we had known than the merest stranger .
And then after a while came other news -- Willis Starr was married XXXXX the other Eliza Laurance , the true heiress .
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