Trip 4467 of 5250 collection book48
On this notion which nothing but mere vanity could have inspired inbook13 opposition to so many more weighty presumptions she tookbook11 the resolution of bringing the affair to a fuller explanation before she would concert any measures to the prejudice of our adventurer and forthwith despatched her spy back to his lodgings to solicit on the part of Wilhelmina an immediate answer to the letter he had received. This was an expedition with which the old maiden would have willingly dispensed because it was founded upon an uncertainty which might be attended with troublesome consequences but rather than be the means of retarding a negotiation so productive of that sort of mischief which is particularly agreeable to all of her tribe she undertook to manage and effect the discovery in full confidence of her own talents and experience.... read all
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