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"I alad of it," said Catherine; "it would have been very shocking!"

"If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to--Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained What have you been judging froe in which we live Relish, that we are Christians

Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at the known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every hbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been adallery, and with tears of shame she ran off to her own room