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Ferdinand read the whole remonstrance with great composure and moderation and was content to incur thebook20 hazard of her hate rather than put her to the trouble of making such an effort ofbook71 generosity as would induce her to forgive the heinous offence he had committed nor did his apprehension for Wilhelmina in the least influence his behaviour on this occasion. She taxed him with knavery insensibility and dissimulation imprecated a thousand curses upon his head and threatened not only to persecute his life with all the arts that hell and malice could inspire but also to wound him in the person of her daughterinlaw who should be enclosed for life in a convent where she should have leisure to repent of those loose and disorderly practices which he had taught her to commit and of which she could not pretend innocence as they had it in their power to confront her with the evidence of her lovers own confession.... read all
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