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You , in whom I had treasured up every hope of future happiness , for whom I would with transport have shed my heart's best blood , you who have always seemed so generous , so nobly disin- terested , surely you can never , sacrifice ...
You , in whom I had treasured up every hope of future happiness , for whom I would with transport have shed my heart's best blood , you who have always seemed so generous , so nobly disin- terested , surely you can never , sacrifice ...
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You jest , surely , Montalva ( cried the count ) , or you have hitherto been very secret in your amour , for I never had the least idea of it . " " To all my secrets thou art welcome , D'Rosonio ( replied his friend ) , but this was not ...
You jest , surely , Montalva ( cried the count ) , or you have hitherto been very secret in your amour , for I never had the least idea of it . " " To all my secrets thou art welcome , D'Rosonio ( replied his friend ) , but this was not ...
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I have not courage to run the risk of being rejected , and perhaps scorned ( said Clara ) . Don Juan will not surely attempt to carry his threats into effect ; but if he should , I have still a resource 54.
I have not courage to run the risk of being rejected , and perhaps scorned ( said Clara ) . Don Juan will not surely attempt to carry his threats into effect ; but if he should , I have still a resource 54.
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... torn by a struggle to perform those duties to which it is unequal . " To voluntarily doom a fellow being to such a state of misery , is an act of cruelty of which a generous mind must surely be incapable ; and in this case your wish 71.
... torn by a struggle to perform those duties to which it is unequal . " To voluntarily doom a fellow being to such a state of misery , is an act of cruelty of which a generous mind must surely be incapable ; and in this case your wish 71.
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surely be incapable ; and in this case your wish to do so would be a vain one ; that interest which you well know I possess at court , and which I have never yet exerted for myself , shall be strained to the utmost in behalf of Clara ...
surely be incapable ; and in this case your wish to do so would be a vain one ; that interest which you well know I possess at court , and which I have never yet exerted for myself , shall be strained to the utmost in behalf of Clara ...
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| Title | Montalva, or, Annals of guilt Montalva, or, Annals of guilt, Ann Mary Hamilton |
| Author | Ann Mary Hamilton |
| Published | 1811 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2006 |
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