Jane Talbot
Copyright© 2024 by Charles Brockden Brown
Letter LXV
To G. Cartwright
Banks of Delaware, October 5.
My brother:--
It would avail me nothing to deny the confessions to which you allude. Neither will I conceal from you that I am much grieved at the discovery. Far am I from deeming your good opinion of little value; but in this case I was more anxious to deserve it than possess it.
Little, indeed, did you know me, when you imagined me insensible to your merit and forgetful of the happy days of our childhood, --the recollection of which has a thousand times made my tears flow. I thank Heaven that the evils which I have suffered have had no tendency to deaden my affections, to narrow my heart.
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