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The Virginians

CHAPTER XIV
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Dr.Young is very well.

Mr.Dodd is very well; but they have not the true air--as how should they?
I protest, I beg pardon! I forgot my lord bishop, your ladyship's first choice.

But, as I said before, to be a complete woman, one must have, what you have, what I may say and bless Heaven for, I think I have--a good heart.

Without the affections, all the world is vanity, my love! I protest I only live, exist, eat, drink, rest, for my sweet, sweet children!--for my wicked Willy, for my self-willed Fanny, dear naughty loves!" (She rapturously kisses a bracelet on each arm which contains the miniature representations of those two young persons.) "Yes, Mimi! yes, Fanchon! you know I do, you dear, dear little things! and if they were to die, or you were to die, your poor mistress would die too!" Mimi and Fanchon, two quivering Italian greyhounds, jump into their lady's arms, and kiss her hands, but respect her cheeks, which are covered with rouge.

"No, my dear! For nothing do I bless Heaven so much (though it puts me to excruciating torture very often) as for having endowed me with sensibility and a feeling heart!" "You are full of feeling, dear Anna," says the Baroness.


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