Lady Augusta Murray's commonplace book

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What is feeling -- what is thought -- Alas to me they are nothing -- they are a blank I have no power to distinguish a difference, or a color among all the objects of [[underline]] life & [[/underline]] fancy.-- 'twas pity & affection for him -- indifference & apathy about myself urged me on the best half of my existence is destroyed & ˄ [[addition]] with [[/addition]] the other I only know to despair. I seem pursued by misfortune affliction follows affliction in such quick succession as to blend in one vast & dreadful accumulation, the several feelings, they shd seperately Excite -- I have no time to think I can only suffer -- & while I sought

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