Date: 1788
"Such a crowd of thoughts all at once rushed into Mary's mind, that she in vain attempted to express the sentiments which were most predominant."
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Date: 1788
"Her heart longed to receive a new guest; there was a void in it: accustomed to have some one to love, she was alone, and comfortless, if not engrossed by a particular affection."
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Date: 1788
"Oh! reason, thou boasted guide, why desert me, like the world, when I most need thy assistance!"
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Date: 1788
"she hoped that absence and reflection, together with the conviction of it's being hopeless, would conquer this infant passion before it could gather strength wholly to ruin his repose."
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