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"text": "1814, Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Fashion, London: H. Colburn, Volume II, Part VIII, p. 287,\nI saw, though he tried to conceal it, that he was very much hurt at your behaviour, and I was sure, by his looks, that he did not think my jealous apprehension groundless; however, he protested he did, and persuaded me not to make a scene by arriving her in the middle of the night […]"
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