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Evening & take every body's place is what I am notused to, and tho'though I do not care a pin about it myself,I aſsure you I shall not easily forgive or forget it."

This speech which perfectly explained the whole affair to Kitty, was shortly followed on her sideby a very submiſsive apology, for she had too muchgood Sense to be proud of her family, and toomuch good Nature to live at variance with anyone. The Excuses she made, were delivered withso much real concern for the Offence, and suchunaffected Sweetneſs, that it was almost impoſsi::ble for Camilla to retain that anger which hadoccasioned them; She felt indeed most highly gratified to find that no insult had been intended and that Catherine was very far from forgetting the difference in their birth for which she couldnow only pity her, and her good humour beingrestored with the same Ease in which it had been affected, she spoke with the highest delight of theEvening, & declared that she had never before been

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