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"Never! while heaven spares my reason, ' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own."
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"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."
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