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been harassed by a series of domestic vexation & perplexity which I conceive would have w<u>or</u>n the patience of a greater stoic than I profess to be, yet I cannot believe that even in the most trying moments, I could ever have been so far transported by passion as <u>to wish to renounce a country</u>, altogether the most beautiful, the most healthy, & the most desirable to reside in that I have yet seen. | been harassed by a series of domestic vexation & perplexity which I conceive would have w<u>or</u>n the patience of a greater stoic than I profess to be, yet I cannot believe that even in the most trying moments, I could ever have been so far transported by passion as <u>to wish to renounce a country</u>, altogether the most beautiful, the most healthy, & the most desirable to reside in that I have yet seen. | ||
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been harassed by a series of domestic vexation & perplexity which I conceive would have worn the patience of a greater stoic than I profess to be, yet I cannot believe that even in the most trying moments, I could ever have been so far transported by passion as to wish to renounce a country, altogether the most beautiful, the most healthy, & the most desirable to reside in that I have yet seen.
I have nevertheless long ceased to wish to spend more than a day at a time with you, feeling perfectly convinced by your conduct as well as your assurances that it is most for our comfort & credit to live separate: & your two last letters have entirely cured me of the wish of conversing with you in any other manner than by letter.
You may therefore depend upon my never surprising or distressing you by a visit in sickness or in health without your invitation – and in such an instance I trust I shall be ready to prove that, as with Serne’s Monk, Nature has done with her resentments
in your affectionate
Eliza
My love to Tom.
I direct as you desire, tho I conclude you have left town