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an unfair price. I return it to you for the sum which was given for it.

No, Sir; after the indirect means I have used to wrest it from you, I feel that I do not deserve it. I too have been a selfish fellow.

Nay, if you come to confessions, I must speak also; I have been a careless, thoughtless, vain and giddy wife.

I forgive thee, Harriet; and though I cannot own entirely that character of suspicion which you would all so decidedly fasten upon me, yet I will freely confess

Have done with confessions. We shall all be wiser, and, I hope, better, for what has just passed, and therefore have no cause to regret it.