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he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avow::al of. — I shall always detest them both. — He can have no true regard for me, or he would nothave listened to her; – And she, with her little re::bellious heart & indelicate feelings to throw her::self into the protection of a young Man with whom she had scarcely ever exchanged two words before.I am equally confounded at herImpudence &hisCredulity. — How dared he beleive what shetold him in my disfavour! — Ought he not tohave felt aſsured that I must have unanswer::able motives for all that I had done! — Wherewas his reliance on my Sense or Goodneſs then;where the resentment which true Love would have dictated against the person defaming me,that person too, a Chit, a Child, without Talentor Education, whom he had been always taughtto despise? —

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