with which are incorporated judge from Perdita's own writing she was badly treated. She most probably was, but then, a woman embarking on the career she was eventually to choose for herself needs to be a good judge of character, and that poor Perdita never was. Besides her mentality was muddled up with moral aspirations and regrets for her own lapses, and too coloured by tenderness of regard for the people who used her and tossed her aside. She had neither the wit of a Harriet Wilson, nor the brazen self-assurance of a Jordan.
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