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him and no doubt she exclaimed to
After the supper was over, she related a very affecting story to the company, concerning her former husband, and the reasons why she was obliged to part with her child; when, to the astonishment of the young man, she made herself known to him; and, no doubt she exclaimed to him, calling him by his name, “I am your mother.”
— from The Foundling; or, The Child of Providence by J. (John) Church

him accordingly Nor did subsequent events tend
There can be no doubt that Fox looked on Walpole as having assisted to thwart his design of governing England in the name of the insignificant Duke of Portland, and detested him accordingly. Nor did subsequent events tend to soften Fox’s recollection of this passage in his life, or of the persons concerned in it.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

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