I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.
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