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"credit) had better be forgot than remem:"":bered."

Alice had already begun to colourup & was beginning to speak, when herLadyship perceiving her displeasure,continued thus.

" I am afraid my dear Girl that I""have offended you by what I have just""said; I aſsure you I do not mean to""distreſs you by a retrospection of what""cannot now be helped; considering all""things I do not think you so much to""blame as many People do; for when a" "person is in Liquor, there is no answer:ing"

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