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Excerpt from Lucretia, or the Children of Night, Vol. 2 of 2
And yet, said Lucretia, with a solemn sadness in her voice, that in?uence is but the natural power which cold maturity exercises on ardent youth. It is my mournful advantage over you that disquiets your happy calm. It is my experience that unsettles the Let this pass. I asked your opinion of me, because I wished to place at your service all that knowledge Of life which I possess. In proportion as you esteem me, you will accept or reject my counsels.
I have benefited by them already. It is the tone that you advised me to assume that gave me an importance I had not before with that Old formalist whose paper I serve, and whose prejudices I shock 5 it is to your criticisms that I owe the more practical turn of my writings, and the greater hold they have taken on the public.
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