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Mathilda

CHAPTER VII
10/19

You will not follow me, for when I bannish myself would you nourish guilt by obtruding yourself upon me?
You will not do this, I know you will not.

You must forget me and all the evil that I have taught you.

Cast off the only gift that I have bestowed upon you, your grief, and rise from under my blighting influence as no flower so sweet ever did rise from beneath so much evil.
"You will never hear from me again: receive these then as the last words of mine that will ever reach you; and although I have forfeited your filial love, yet regard them I conjure you as a father's command.
Resolutely shake of[f] the wretchedness that this first misfortune in early life must occasion you.

Bear boldly up against the storm: continue wise and mild, but believe it, and indeed it is, your duty to be happy.

You are very young; let not this check for more than a moment retard your glorious course; hold on, beloved one.


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