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enough in
themselves — and their in::marriage, instead of being depriveding1her of one freind the by Anne's marriage, it gained her another secured her two. When they had any home, she was frequently w She was one oftheir first visitors in their settled Life — and Capt.Captain Wentworth, byputting her in the way of reco::vering her Husband'sthe property in the W.West Indies,by giving her the writing for her, & acting for her, & seeing her
throughall the petty Difficulties of the
case,with the activity & exertion of afearleſs friend Man, & a determinedfriend, convinced her of his being much nearer Perfection than her intercourse with
the World had fully requited theservices she had rendered, or hadevermeant to render her friend, to his Wife — and could not fail of And having received such fre abenefit from establishing his And having done him, not even his wife could so much for her, scarcely could Mrs . Smith's
estimate of his Perfections could his wife even think him nearer be surpaſsed only by that
Wife's. perfection, —
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