by my
hopes or
fears.—I
did not
believe
her to be
indifferent
because I
wished
it；—I
believed
it on
impartial
conviction，as
truly as I
wished it
in
reason.—My
objections
to the
marriage
were not
merely
those，which
I last
night
acknowledged
to have
required
the utmost
force of
passion to
put
aside，in
my own
case；the
want of
connection
could not
be so
great an
evil to my
friend as
to me.—But
there were
other
causes of
repugnance；—causes
which，though
still
