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& Anne rose to go. — She was ear::nestly invited to stay dinner; —  &a note was dispatched to Camden Place — and she staid; — she staid till 10 at night.And during that time, more than one interval was secured to them by Mrs - Croft the Husband & wife, either by the wife's contrivance, or by simply going on in their usual way, were frequentlyout of the room together — gone upstairs to hear a noise, or gone downstairs to settle their accounts, or gone upon the Landing place to trimthe Lamp. — And these precious momentswere turned to so good an account thatall many of the most anxious feelings of thepast were gone through. – Before theyparted at night, Anne had the felicityof being aſsured in the first place that — (so far frombeing altered for the worse!) – shehad gainedinexpreſsibly in personal Lovelineſs; &that as to Character her's was nowfixed on his Mind as Perfection it::self —maintaining bearing the just medium of Fortitude & Gentleneſs; – that he hadnever ceased to love & prefer her, though ithad been only at Uppercroſs thathe had learnt to do her any Jus::tice — & only at Lyme that he had begun to understand his ownsensations; — that at Lyme he had

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