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1 " For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult to understand that among a people piquing themselves on their liberty, it was the custom to shut a man up in perpetual confinement, to enable him to pay his debts. "
― Charlotte Turner Smith , Ethelinde, or, the Recluse of the Lake
