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"Thought is free, as sages tells us--

Free to rove, and free to soar;

But affection lives in bondage,

That enthrals her more and hbourhood who reain, though not able to leave the

house So the first day that it was fine enough for Mrs Curtis to

venture out, she undertook to convey Fanny to call upon her, and was off

with a wonderfully est

boys outside with their ht about

Fanny's past way of life and feelings than had ever yet appeared

Rachel had never elicited nearly so much as seemed to have come forth

spontaneously to the aunt, who had never in old times been Fanny's

confidante

Fanny's life had been ale with the kind old General, he and her mother had conspired

to make much of her; all the more that she was almost constantly

disabled by her state of health, and was kept additionally languid

and helpless by the effects of clied her

household, and she had absolutely had no care, no duty at all but to be

affectionate and grateful, and to be pretty and gracious at the dinner