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Lucretia
Complete

CHAPTER I
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Look round the world; contemplate all those who have married from passion: ten years afterwards, whither has the passion flown?
With a few, indeed, where there is community of object and character, new excitements, new aims and hopes, spring up; and having first taken root in passion, the passion continues to shoot out in their fresh stems and fibres.

But deceive yourself not; there is no such community between you and Mainwaring.

What you call his goodness, you will learn hereafter to despise as feeble; and what in reality is your mental power he soon, too soon, will shudder at as unwomanly and hateful." "Hold!" cried Lucretia, tremulously.

"Hold! and if he does, I shall owe his hate to you,--to your lessons; to your deadly influence!" "Lucretia, no; the seeds were in you.

Can cultivation force from the soil that which it is against the nature of the soil to bear ?" "I will pluck out the weeds! I will transform myself!" "Child, I defy you!" said the scholar, with a smile that gave to his face the expression his son had conveyed to it.


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