Lucretia B
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390 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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They lured him to the gaming table and let him win almost every time for a good while, and patted him on the back and said, First rate player, but fully in their grasp, they fleeced him, and his thirty thousand dollars were lost.
Last of all, he put up his watch and lost that.
Then he began to think of home and of his old father and mother, and wrote thus My beloved parents, you will doubtless feel a momentary joy at the reception of this letter from the child of your bosom.
On whom you have lavished all the favours of your declining years, but should a feeling of joy for a moment spring up in your hearts when you shall have received this from me, cherish it not.
I have fallen deep, never to rise.
Those gray hairs that I should have honored and protected.
I shall bring down with sorrow to the grave.
I will not curse my destroyer but
But oh, may God avenge the wrongs and impositions practiced upon the unwary in a way that shall best please him.
This, my dear parents, is the last letter you will ever receive from me.
I humbly pray your forgiveness.
It is my dying prayer.
Long before you shall have received this letter from me, the cold grave will have closed upon me for ever.
Life is to me insupportable.
I cannot, nay, I will not suffer the shame of having ruined you.
Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of your unfortunate son.
The old father came to the post office, got the letter, and fell to the floor.
They thought he was dead at first, but they brushed back the white hair from his brow and fanned him.
He had only fainted.
I wish he had been dead, for what is life worth to a father after his son is destroyed?
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