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 and she might also have grieved at my recollecting it.

"You are in the right," replied she, its very difficult to efface ancient and strong impressions,"

It appeared, as if she wished me to digress from the main subject.—"I did not allude to you, madam," interrupted I, "It was only meant to the society to whom you now seem totally to belong. You accuse me of introducing you to it, but nothing can be falser. No man could be more disgusted with it than I was before our marriage. That society always wrested me from the hands of persons most dear to me, only because they did not suit their plans, and made me form connexions with others, whom I never loved, because by this means they succeeded in their wishes."

"Do you allude to me in this point?"

—"My remark is general. But I was born free, Madam, and it is insupportable to be under foreign control."

—"Who subjected you to it?"