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I meant to represent her, as a human being, loving virtue while enslaved by passion.
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The speaker describes portraying a woman as fully human, capable of loving virtue while still being controlled or constrained by passion. The sentence holds two qualities together: a sincere attachment to what is morally good and a powerful emotional force that limits her freedom. It presents her as conflicted rather than simply virtuous or blameworthy.
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- Project Gutenberg, Memoirs of Emma Courtney
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