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The Loss Of Liberty Which Must Attend Being A Wife Was Of All Things The Most Horrible To My Imagination.

The Supposition That It Was Possible For Any Woman To Be So Mean-spirited As Not At Least To Wish To Tear Out Her Rival's Eyes Was Too Hard For The Digestion Of The Cry.

But In All Things Whether We Shall Make Only A Due Use Of The Liberties We Have Asked, Is Left Entirely To The Judicious Reader To Decide.

I Was Condemned To Be Beheaded, Or Burnt, As The King Pleased; And He Was Graciously Pleased, From The Great Remains Of His Love, To Choose The Mildest Sentence.

I Had Some Short Struggle In My Mind Whether I Should Resign My Lover Or My Liberty, But This Lasted Not Long. I Found Myself As Free As Air And Could Not Bear The Thought Of Putting Myself In Any Man's Power For Life Only From A Present Capricious Inclination.