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_Fidelia_. You act love, sir! you must but act it indeed after all I have said to you. Think of your honour, sir: -- love! _Manly_. Well, call it revenge, and that is honourable. I'll be revenged on her. WYCHERLEY. -- _The Plain Dealer._
When the Vyners returned to town, and Rose discovered that Julius was in Italy, the grief which had assailed her, in the first remorse at having played with his affection, was crossed with a certain feeling of indignation at the calmness, as she called it, with which he accepted his fate. This was very unreasonable, I allow; very. It was not at all like a heroine; but it was like a woman, I believe; and certainly like Rose.