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“ My daughter is yet a child ( said the signor D'Albici , smiling at his warmth ) , and one year would not render her a woman , neither should I chuse to form any positive engagement for lier ; but be assured count , that I have the ...
“ My daughter is yet a child ( said the signor D'Albici , smiling at his warmth ) , and one year would not render her a woman , neither should I chuse to form any positive engagement for lier ; but be assured count , that I have the ...
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... signor D'Albici had forbid D'Rosonio his house , and he carefully charged his domestics to bring him every letter that came ; he also observed with the greatest attention , that no person but her woman , on whose fidelity he relied ...
... signor D'Albici had forbid D'Rosonio his house , and he carefully charged his domestics to bring him every letter that came ; he also observed with the greatest attention , that no person but her woman , on whose fidelity he relied ...
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stored to peace , he will remember me only as an ambitious , inconstant woman , and such a being he cannot regret . At this thought her tears flowed with added bitterness , and the romantic genérosity which dictated her resolution ...
stored to peace , he will remember me only as an ambitious , inconstant woman , and such a being he cannot regret . At this thought her tears flowed with added bitterness , and the romantic genérosity which dictated her resolution ...
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Beauty is the gift of all others which our sex most wish to be thonght possessed of it , nor is there any woman , who would chuse to own herself destitute of all pretensions to it , if she was conscious that she was speaking the truth .
Beauty is the gift of all others which our sex most wish to be thonght possessed of it , nor is there any woman , who would chuse to own herself destitute of all pretensions to it , if she was conscious that she was speaking the truth .
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She quitted him as she spoke , and for a moment he was tempted to transgress the promise which he had just given , and follow her , but the dread of losing her prevented him ; he had never before seen a woman that interested him so much ...
She quitted him as she spoke , and for a moment he was tempted to transgress the promise which he had just given , and follow her , but the dread of losing her prevented him ; he had never before seen a woman that interested him so much ...
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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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