By: Ardis E. Parshall - July 20, 2016 From The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O’Brien, 1881 (I do not know the date and place of first publication; the author died in 1862) – My Wife’s Tempter By Fitz-James O’Brien I. A Predestined Marriage Elsie and I were to be married in less than a week. It was rather a strange match, and I knew that some of our neighbors shook their heads over it and said that no good would come. The way it...
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