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Updated: May 3, 2025

I had no policy in all this; you may easily see it was all nature; but it was joined with so much innocence and so much passion that, in short, it set the good motherly creature a-weeping too, and she cried at last as fast as I did, and then took me and led me out of the teaching-room. 'Come, says she, 'you shan't go to service; you shall live with me'; and this pacified me for the present.

Daniel Defoe - The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders