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 do not feel so very, very much afflicted as one would have thought."

"You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.—Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves."

Catherine, by some chance or other, found her spirits so very much relieved by this conversation, that she could not regret her being led on, though so unaccountably, to mention the circumstance which had produced it. CHAP-