Two Chapters of Persuasion: Diplomatic Display London British Library, MS Egerton 3038
to offer in return
for all the Worth & all the prompt wel::come which met her in his Bro::thers & Sisters, was a source ofas lively pain, to her fel Mind of Upright Delicacy, as her Mind it could wellbe sensible of, under circumstancesof
otherwise strong felicity. — Shehad but toowo1 friends in the World, independant of himself, whom she to add to his List, Lady R.Russel& Mrs . Smith. — Lady R. To thesehowever, he was very well-disposedto attach
himself. Lady R–––Russel in::spite of all her
former transgreſsions, he could now value from hisheart;
— while he was not obligedto say that he beleived her to beenhave2been right inoriginally dividing them, he wasready to sayalmost anything else in herfavour; — & as for
Mrs . Smith,she had agreablenſs claims ofvarious kinds to recommend herquickly & — permanently. — Her recentgood offices by
Anne had been
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- 'have' written over 'been'. Back to context...