Emma



My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin’d to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal.— made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.

“Why will not you write one yourself for us, Mr. Elton?” said she; “that is the only security for its freshness; and nothing could be easier to you.”

“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever,


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My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin’d to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal.— made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.

“Why will not you write one yourself for us, Mr. Elton?” said she; “that is the only security for its freshness; and nothing could be easier to you.”

“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever,


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