Trip 1447 of 5400 collection book38
Yet she scorned to give speech to her indignation but forcing a smilebook72 Why should I repine said she at the mortifications of a life which I despise and from which I hope Heaven speedily will set me free Fathom fired by her emotion which had recalled all the graces of her beauty exclaimed in a rapture Talk not so contemptuously of this life which hath still a fund of happiness in store for the amiable the divine Monimia. She joined in the commendations of Fathom and owned herself a particular instance of that benevolence which the old lady had so justly extolled but once for all to prevent the supplication which Madam la Mer was about to make she solemnly protested that her heart was altogether shut against any other earthly engagement and that her thoughts were altogether employed upon her eternal salvation.... read all
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