… but I could not like her; there was something of malignity in her countenance and conversation that repelled love, and of hypocrisy which annihilated esteem, and from time to time I saw, or thought I saw through the gloom of her …
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… were she not to learn it, she ‘might almost as well condemn [herself] to perpetual silence’. 22 18 . Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education, 3 vols, 2nd ed. (London: J. Johnson, 1801), p. 357. 19 . Maria Edgeworth, Letters …
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