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More from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  1. I did confess, but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. The …

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  2. Not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual. I was encom…

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  3. It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.

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