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his detested [[underline]] presence. -- [[/underline]] | his detested [[underline]] presence. -- [[/underline]] | ||
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| + | "Oh St Elmer" would I sometimes say | ||
| + | had you but one Error, it would be dearer | ||
| + | to my heart than all yr virtues.-- | ||
| + | however the keenness of my feelings had | ||
| + | subsided, --I doubt no longer with refined | ||
| + | Excess on the import of it, words & actions, | ||
| + | so far had time mellowed the irritability of | ||
| + | my Soul, & blunted the quick tenaciousness | ||
| + | of my Ideas, --but it had done no more, --I still | ||
| + | remembered such things were, & a Feather | ||
| + | would have turned the scale.-- | ||
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....Even this to my tenacious fancy seemed to convey reproach, & I wrested Ideas from the very breast of probability to torture myself on their refinement; the keen sensitiveness of my feelings remained continually alive to torment me in his detested underline presence. -- /underline
"Oh St Elmer" would I sometimes say had you but one Error, it would be dearer to my heart than all yr virtues.-- however the keenness of my feelings had subsided, --I doubt no longer with refined Excess on the import of it, words & actions, so far had time mellowed the irritability of my Soul, & blunted the quick tenaciousness of my Ideas, --but it had done no more, --I still remembered such things were, & a Feather would have turned the scale.--
