I arrive in England – Am kindly received by my mother, who had become

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While on my voyage, my mind was almost wholly occupied with thoughts of Adela, and of the course which it would become me to take when I arrived in England. I reflected with anguish on the disappointment which I flattered myself my faithful mistress would have to sustain, when the joy which I was sure she must have felt at my restoration to character, and to my native country, should have to give way to the grief, or scorn, which must follow the announcement of the fact, that I had become the husband of another.

I arrive in England – Am kindly received by my mother, who had become very fashionable in my absence – She teaches me how to be cheaply genteel, and economically liberal.

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