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I have not yet said anything conde for interest and connections It surprised me when I

first discovered that such was his intention: I had thought him a

man unlikely to be influenced by er I considered the position,

education, &c, of the parties, the less I felt justified in judging

and bla in conformity to

ideas and principles instilled into them, doubtless, from their

childhood All their class held these principles: I supposed,

then, they had reasons for holding them such as I could not fathoentleman like him, I would take to

my bosom only such a wife as I could love; but the very obviousness

of the advantages to the husband's own happiness offered by this

plan convinced eneral

adoption of which I was quite ignorant: otherwise I felt sure all

the world would act as I wished to act

But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to

all his faults, for which I had once

kept a sharp look-out It had formerly been my endeavour to study

all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and froment Now I saw

no bad The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had

startled me once, were only like keen condient, but their absence would be felt as

co--was it a

sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression?--

that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and