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 no evening party is endurable. I dare say, love in a cottage is very pleasant; but then it positively must be a cottage ornée: but would not the same love be a great deal safer in a castle, even if Mammon furnished the fortification?

Oh, Lady Clarinda! there is a heartlessness in that language that chills me to the soul.

Heartlessness! No: my heart is on my lips. I speak just what I think. You used to like it, and say it was as delightful as it was rare.

True, but you did not then talk as you do now, of love in a castle.

Well, but only consider: a dun is a hor-