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world will give you credit for being a modest-natured
woman and a faithful wife."
"My own heart at least Madam will
give me credit for being such, and while that is
the case, I shall care very little for what the
world thinks."
"Aye-aye--I thought so--a woman
who does not care what her friends think, will soon
cease to care what the world thinks--had you
taken my advice when I warned you against your
follies--when I expostulated with you on your levity of
conduct--it would never hence come to this--
But even yet, I hope you will see the error of your
ways and stop in your carreer before it is too late."
"If my reputation is irretrievably lost, is
it not already too late?"
"Too late to regain the good opinion of man, { ?}
too late to repent and reform."
"The { ?} madam, { ?}
are mistaken-- I am not the guilty creature you
are pleased to suppose