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1st Gent Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves

2d Gent Ay, truly: but I think it is the world

That brings the iron

"Sir Ja you wish," said Celia, as

they were driving hoood creature, and ine,"

said Dorothea, inconsiderately

"You mean that he appears silly"

"No, no," said Dorothea, recollecting herself, and laying her hand on

her sister's a moment, "but he does not talk equally well on all

subjects"

"I should think none but disagreeable people do," said Celia, in her

usual purring way "They must be very dreadful to live with Only

think! at breakfast, and always"

Dorothea laughed "O Kitty, you are a wonderful creature!" She pinched

Celia's chin, being in theand

lovely--fit hereafter to be an eternal cherub, and if it were not

doctrinally wrong to say so, hardly more in need of salvation than a

squirrel "Of course people need not be always talking well Only one

tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well"

"You enerally Why do you catechise me about Sir James?