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This story deals, for the most part, with the machinations of a
beautiful unscrupulous woman, greedy for love, greedy for emotion,
greedy for the first place with all. She is the indirect cause of her
husband’s death; and nearly succeeds in spoiling the life of her only
son, and that of the child of her oldest friend. She took, and gave
nothing, and left her mere beauty to repay those duped fools who laid
down their best at her feet. For she had nothing else to give.