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diff --git a/66678-0.txt b/66678-0.txt index 4d648af..6b0005d 100644 --- a/66678-0.txt +++ b/66678-0.txt @@ -2721,7 +2721,7 @@ of attachment. We had no sooner set foot on shore, than my companions and myself were conducted to the palace of the bashaw Soliman, where a Christian -secretary; questioning us individually one after another, inquired +secretary, questioning us individually one after another, inquired into our names, our ages, our country, our religion, and our qualifications. Then Mahomet, presenting me to the bashaw, paid my voice more compliments than it deserved, and told him that I played @@ -3227,7 +3227,7 @@ because you have given a box on the ear to an actress, but for your failure in respect to your master and mistress, in having presumed to interrupt the progress of the play in their presence. -This decision Was a bitter pill for me to swallow. It was high +This decision was a bitter pill for me to swallow. It was high treason against my histrionic majesty, that the German was not turned off on the ground of having insulted me. It seemed difficult to conceive the possibility of a greater crime than that of insulting a @@ -3274,7 +3274,7 @@ make up my mind on the subject. In this interval, I made inquiries about the gentleman; and hearing a good character of him, notwithstanding the deranged state of his finances, it was my determination to marry him without more ado, so that the -preliminaries Were soon ratified by a definitive treaty. +preliminaries were soon ratified by a definitive treaty. Don Manuel de Xerica--for that was my husband's name--took me immediately after the ceremony to his castle, which had an air of @@ -6777,7 +6777,7 @@ her little comforts about her, without deviating from the line of her duty. If she is discreet,--by which we mean that she should not admit more than one lover into her good graces at a time,--her exemplary conduct is cried up as without a parallel. She is called a -very Niobe for her coldness; and when she changes her favorite, ahe +very Niobe for her coldness; and when she changes her favorite, she is reprimanded as slightly by the world as a lawful widow who marries a few weeks too soon after the death of her first husband. If, however, the widow should look for luck in odd numbers, and take to |