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I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, __h me! I wish I were a widow!_ Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather__ weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.
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I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, __h me! I wish I were a widow!_ Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather__ weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.
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