Seven Wives And Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story
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A few daysafterward, when I had settled my business and collected my bills inPortsmouth and Exeter, I went to New York, and from there to Newark. CHAPTER VII. WEDDING A WIDOW, AND THE CONSEQUENCES. I MARRY A WIDOW--SIX WEEKS OF HAPPINESS--CONFIDING A SECRET AND THECONSEQUENCES--THE WIDOW'S BROTHER--SUDDEN FLIGHT FROM NEWARK--INHARTFORD, CONN. --MY WIFE'S SISTER BETRAYS ME--TRIAL FORBIGAMY--SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT--I BECOME A "BOBBINBOY"--A GOOD FRIEND--GOVERNOR PRICE VISITS ME IN PR...ISON--HE PARDONSME--TEN YEARS' SENTENCE FULFILLED IN SEVEN MONTHS. Why in the world did Captain Brown ever tempt me with the prospectof a profitable patient in Newark? I had no thought of going to thatcity, and no business there except to see if I could cure CaptainBrown's daughter. With my matrimonial monomania it was like puttingmy hand into the fire to go to a fresh place, where I should seefresh faces, and where fresh temptations would beset me. And when Iwent to Newark, I went only as I supposed, to see a single patient;but Captain Brown prevailed upon me to stay to take care of hisdaughter, and assured me that he and his friends would secure me agood practice.
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