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Mary Wollstonecraft's Love Letters to Gilbert Imlay 9Letter 9

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Mary Wollstonecraft's Love Letters to Gilbert Imlay 9

Letter 9

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Tuesday Morning [Paris, Dec. 31, 1793].
Though I have just sent a letter off, yet, as captain ---- offers to take one, I am not willing to let him go without a kind greeting, because trifles of this sort, without having any effect on my mind, damp my spirits:--and you, with all your struggles to be manly, have some of his same sensibility.--Do not bid it begone, for I love to see it striving to master your features; besides, these kind of sympathies are the life of affection: and why, in cultivating our understandings, should we try to dry up these springs of pleasure, which gush out to give a freshness to days browned by care!
The books sent to me are such as we may read together; so I shall not look into them till you return; when you shall read, whilst I mend my stockings.
Yours truly, MARY.

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Mary Wollstonecraft's Love Letters to Gilbert Imlay 10

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