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CHAPTER III
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Another is, that I do not think it altogether right for me to indulge you in such views and feelings as you and Adeline are beginning to entertain.

You wish to go to London, because you don't want to go to Saratoga, or to any other of our watering places; and you don't want to go there, because certain others, whom you esteem below you in rank, can afford to enjoy themselves, and recruit their health at the same places of public resort.

All this I, do not approve, and cannot encourage." "You certainly cannot wish us to associate with every one," said Emily, in a tone less arrogant.
"Of course not, Emily," replied Mr.Ludlow; "but I do most decidedly condemn the spirit from which you are now acting.

It would exclude others, many of whom, in moral character, are far superior to yourself from enjoying the pleasant, health-imparting recreation of a visit to the Springs, because it hurts your self-importance to be brought into brief contact with them." "I can't understand what you mean by speaking of these kind of people as superior in moral character to us," Mrs.Ludlow remarked.
"I said some of them.

And, in this, I mean what I say.


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