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Why would you write to me? Why do you require particulars? But, since it must be so, I am obliged to declare that all the accounts of your misconduct during the life, and since the death of Mr. Vernon, which had reached me, in common with the world in general, and gained my entire belief before I saw you, but which you, by the exertion1 of your perverted2 abilities, had made me resolved to disallow3, have been unanswerably proved to me; nay4 more, I am assured that a connection, of which I had never before entertained a thought, has for some time existed, and still continues to exist, between you and the man whose family you robbed of its peace in return for the hospitality with which you were received into it; that you have corresponded with him ever since your leaving Langford; not with his wife, but with him, and that he now visits you every day. Can you, dare you deny it? and all this at the time when I was an encouraged, an accepted lover! From what have I not escaped! I have only to be grateful. Far from me be all complaint, every sigh of regret. My own folly5 had endangered me, my preservation6 I owe to the kindness, the integrity of another; but the unfortunate Mrs. Mainwaring, whose agonies while she related the past seemed to threaten her reason, how is SHE to be consoled! After such a discovery as this, you will scarcely affect further wonder at my meaning in bidding you adieu. My understanding is at length restored, and teaches no less to abhor7 the artifices8 which had subdued9 me than to despise myself for the weakness on which their strength was founded.
R. De Courcy.
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1 exertion | |
n.尽力,努力 | |
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adj.不正当的v.滥用( pervert的过去式和过去分词 );腐蚀;败坏;使堕落 | |
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v.不允许;拒绝 | |
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adv.不;n.反对票,投反对票者 | |
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n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话 | |
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n.保护,维护,保存,保留,保持 | |
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v.憎恶;痛恨 | |
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8 artifices | |
n.灵巧( artifice的名词复数 );诡计;巧妙办法;虚伪行为 | |
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adj. 屈服的,柔和的,减弱的 动词subdue的过去式和过去分词 | |
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