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Richardsons Heroine Is Seized By Dreadful Rascal

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38%7Dreadful or dreadful trials
noun

• a severe or trying experience

• a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence

32%4Rascal, no-good rascal
noun

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

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