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If you think it incredible that to iate as a man of fa to do with the

sense that she was in love with him, I will ask you to use your power

of comparison a little more effectively, and consider whether red cloth

and epaulets have never had an influence of that sort Our passions do

not live apart in locked chambers, but, dressed in their s their provisions to a co out of the co to their appetite

Rosamond, in fact, was entirely occupied not exactly with Tertius

Lydgate as he was in himself, but with his relation to her; and it was

excusable in a girl as accustoht, could, would be, or actually were in love with her, to believe

at once that Lydgate could be no exception His looks and words meant

more to her than other ht of theently attended to that perfection

of appearance, behavior, sentiate a more adequate admirer than she had yet been

conscious of

For Rosareeable