Oh! had she never brought Harriet forward! Had she left her where she ought, and where he had told her she ought!⁠—Had she not, with a folly which no tongue could express, prevented her marrying the unexceptionable young man who would have made her happy and respectable in the line of life to which she ought to belong⁠—all would have been safe; none of this dreadful sequel would have been.

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