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 if he had tumbled headlong into a volcano, and been thrown up again among the cinders.

I cannot believe, that, speaking thus of him, you mean to take him at all.

Oh! I am out of my teens. I have been very much in love; but now I am come to years of discretion, and must think, like other people, of settling myself advantageously. He was in love with a banker's daughter, and cast her off on her father's bankruptcy, and the poor girl has gone to hide herself in some wild place.

She must have a strange taste, if she pines for the loss of him.

They say he was good-looking, till his