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The story relates the misfortunes of Mary May, seduced, promised marriage, jilted and left with an illegitimate child. Mary's mother dies of 'a broken heart' and her child also dies. A moral tale which warns of wealthy, unprincipled 'fast men', the story concludes with a promotional spiel, inviting charitable donations for the [Sydney] 'Female Refuge', where woman such as Mary May, 'polluted as she is... may find a refuge from the cold winds and still colder blasts of the world's scorn.'
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