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 that he discarded her and found one more amenable to his wishes? Do not equivocate, I.have too convincing proofs of your insincerity ; I saw you yesterday walking with Miss Benson, and am informed that you have proposed marriage to her. Whatever you may think, sir, I have a spirit of disdain, and even resentment, equal to your ingratitude, and can treat the wretch with a proper indifference, who can make so slight a matter of the most solemn promises. Miss Benson may be your wife, but she will receive into her arms a perjured husband; nor can ever the superstructure be lasting, which is built on such a foundation. I leave you to the stings of your conscience.—I am the injured.

My dear Angel,—For by that name I must still call you; has cruelty entered into your tender nature, or has some designing wretch imposed on your credulity? My dear, I am not what you have represented; I am neither false nor perjured,—I never proposed marriage to Miss Benson,—I never designed it; and my sole reason for walking with her was, that I bad been on a visit to her brother, who you know is my attorney. And was it any fault in me to take a walk, into the fields along with him and his sister? surely prejudice itself cannot say so; but I am afraid you have been imposed on by some designing person, who had private views and private ends to answer by such baseness. But whatever may have, been the cause, I am entirely innocent; and to convince you of my sincerity, beg that the day of marriage may be next week. My affections never so much as wander from the dear object of my love: in you age centered all my hopes of felicity; with you