My brother-in-law really deserved a catastrophe--which he won't get.

I now pray for a young man to come to my help; some one, I mean, who would talk to her openly, and prove how absurd most of her ideas about life are.

Unluckily such men seem almost as rare as the women.

The English colony certainly doesn't provide one; artists, merchants, cultivated people--they are stupid, conventional, and flirtatious.

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