Excerpt from Second Thoughts, Vol. 2
But not even this praiseworthy effort to turn the tables, and feel a superior pity for him and his contracted nature, brings her much relief. A worse sting than any arising from chiei__pride or baffled obstinacy has been left by their passage of One would think that it must be of little consequence to her at this time of day what his Opinion of her is; that she must, as she herself has so often said, be so irrevocably lost in his esteem, that any efforts to regain it would be futile. But we all of us say many things that we do not mean.
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