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Her virtue, like our own, was built / Too much on that indignant fuss. / Hypocrite pride stirs up in us. / To bully out another's guilt. / --Shelley.
The fifth day after Lord Lodore's departure brought Cornelia a letter from him. She had spent the interval at Twickenham, surrendering her sorrows and their consolation to her mother's care; and inspired by her with deep resentment and angry disdain. The letter she received was dated Havre: the substance of it was as follows.