Translation for "insoweit auch nicht" to english
Insoweit auch nicht
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Die Tochter hatte sie im Alter von siebenzehn Jahren, für eine nicht bedeutende Summe an einen Herrn verkauft, der als Gesandter an einen fremden Hof ging und sie, da er sie liebte, dahin mitnahm, aber unter der Bedingung, dass sie alle Beziehungen mit einer Mutter abbrechen müsse, die gemein genug war, mit ihrem eigenen Fleisch und Blut Handel zu treiben. Da diese gute Mutter aber keine natürlichen Empfindungen und keine andere Leidenschaft als den Geiz hatte, so schmerzte sie das nur insoweit, als ihr mit der Tochter das Mittel verloren ging, Geschenke zu erpressen, oder andere Vorteile aus dem Kauf zu ziehen.
which daughter, at the age of seventeen, she sold, for not a very considerable sum neither, to a gentleman who was going on Envoy abroad, and took his purchase with him, where he us'd her with the utmost tenderness, and it is thought, was secretly married to her: but had constantly made a point of her not keeping up the least correspondence with a mother base enough to make a market of her own flesh and blood.However, as she had no nature, nor, indeed, any passion but that of money, this gave her no further uneasiness, than, as she thereby lost a handle of squeezing presents, or other after-advantages, out of the bargain.Indifferent then, by nature of constitution, to every other pleasure but that of increasing the lump by any means whatever, she commenc'd a kind of private procuress, for which she was not amiss fitted, by her grave decent appearance, and sometimes did a job in the match-making way;
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