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