Excerpt from The Match Girl, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel

He is the half part of a blessed man,

Left to be finished by such a she;

And she a fair divided excellence,

Whose fulness of perfection lies in him,

Oh! two such silver currents when they join,

Do glorify the banks that bound them in.

Shakspeare.

"Oh, merciful heaven! will nobody pity my distress? Will nobody purchase even a few matches of a wretched creature to save her from perishing?

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