More on this book
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Some conversation ensued, from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.
the more I learned of the person, the more inadmissible his employment in a public office became.
her conduct made it extremely difficult to disentangle myself. All the appearances of violent attachment, and of agonizing distress at the idea of a relinquishment, were played with a most imposing art.
On the 17th of January, I received the letter No. V., by which Reynolds writes me to renew my visits to his wife.
no man, tender of the happiness of an excellent wife, could, without extreme pain, look forward to the affliction which she might endure from the disclosure, especially a public disclosure of the fact.
Thus has my desire to destroy this slander completely led me to a more copious and particular examination of it, than I am sure was necessary.
