Two Chapters of Persuasion: Diplomatic Display London British Library, MS Egerton 3038
Mind. — There
was nothing for leſsfor Lady R.Russel to do than to admit that she had been pretty completelywrong, & to take up a new set ofopinions &
hopes. —There is a Bad Moralityquickneſs of perception,in some a nicety of Taste again. A young Woman
proved to had in the discernment of character — have more discrimination ofa natural Penetration
in short in some Character than her
elder — to havewhich no Experience in others can seen in two Instances more clearlyequal — and it was about than her Godmother! what a Man was. — But on the revealing that Lady R.Russel had been leſs point of Morality, I confeſs my::gifted
in this [.] p[...]art1 of Understandingself almost in despair
after un::than her myself already young friendderstanding to have given a mother offence (having already appeared weak exactly in the point where I thought myself most strong) and shall leave it therefore leave the present
matter to the mercyof Mothers & Chaperones
& Middle::aged Ladies in general –; – but she Lady R.Russel was avery good Woman; &if her second object
was to be sensible& well-judging, her first was to seeAnne happy.
She loved Annebetter than she loved her ownabilities —
and when the firstawkwardneſs of the Beginning Novelty wasover, found little hardship inattaching herself as a sort of
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