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received Leſsons of more than one Kind; – the paſsing admiration ofMr . Elliot had at least roused him,and the scenes on the Cobb & at Capt.CaptainHarville's had fixed her Superiority.In his preceeding attempts to attach himself to Louisa Musgrave, (theattempts of Anger & Pique) — heprotested that he had continually ever felt the an impoſsibility of really caring for Louisa her,though till that day, till the leisure for reflection which followed it, he had not understood the per::fect excellence of that the Mind, with which Louisa's could so ill bear a comparison, or the perfect, the unri::valled hold it poſseſsed over himhishis own. — There he had learnt todistinguish between the steadineſs of Principle & the Obstinacy of Self-will;between the Darings of Heedleſsneſs,& the Resolution of a collected Mind there he had seen everything toexalt in his estimation the Woman he had lost, & there begun to de::plore the pride, the folly, the mad::neſs of resentment which had kept him from trying to regain her, when thrown in his way. From that period to the present

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