Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 5R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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Page 329 - She took a prodigious fancy to it, and offered me any price, if I would part with it : but this I declined doing, because I believed that I should draw down upon my head some dreadful calamity, if I voluntarily relinquished the talisman. Irritated by my refusal, the lady, according to the custom of her sex, became more resolute in her purpose ; but neither entreaties nor money could change my determination. Provoked beyond measure at my obstinacy, as she called it, she left the house.