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wound R. as deeply as you can by a trifling remark - because there are very few whose love and esteem she values so highly - and so you know you ought to be more careful what you say to her. She is easily influenced by love and kindness, but you know as well as I do how easily er obstinacy is excited. You say you think Ma took the wrong course in making so much opposition - and yet are you not doing? just the same thing. I do not think it is either right or kind to say as many ugly things to her about them ? - You know she likes them and has done so ever since she has known them - Moreover she is perfectly aware that you dislike them already - and it only makes her angry to have it repeated so often. Why not believe her when she says she loves Mr W She surely knows her own heart best - and anyhow whether she really does or not she thinks so - and you could never convince her of the contrary - So I think the? insist? John is to take it for granted that she feels and thinks just as she says she does. And so believing that her affection is earnest and sincere is it kind to speak against Mr W to her? Put yourself in her place and think what your own feelings would be - It is always unkind I think to say harsh disagreeable things to a person about a friend - and of course it must be doubly