Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
:holding as I did, how attentively they observed every object they saw, how disgusted withsome Things, how enchanted with others, how astonished at all! On the whole howeverthey returned in raptures with the World,its Inhabitants, & Manners.
YrsYoursEver — A – F —.
Letter the second
From a Young lady croſsed in Love to her freind–––
Why should this last disappointmenthang so heavyily1 on my Spirits? Why should I feel it more, why should it wound me deeper than those I have experienced before? Can it be that I have a greater affection for Willoughby than I had for his amiable pre::deceſsors –? Or is it that2 our feelings becomemore acute from being often wounded? I
Footnotes
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- 'heavy' altered to 'heavily' by overwriting erased 'y' with 'ily'.Back to context...
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- Second 't' reinscribed as 't'.Back to context...
