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necessary. There were, indeed, some ob* 

 jections to it : for I have at times been 

 obliged to introduce and connect those 

 passages by words of my own, which 

 therefore could not, without impropriety, 

 have been included within the commas; 

 and yet, being part of the same speech, 

 could not, without aukwardness, have been 

 excluded. I judged, also, that, the frequent 

 recurrence of such commas, might distract 

 the reader s attention from what was going 

 forward, and, in any case, take of from 

 the naturalness of the dialogue. 



