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On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.

The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.

Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.