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 guine temper to miundertand, or contrue favourably.

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Was greatly atonihed at what you put into my hands. Indeed I thought, when I took it, it might have been an Opera ong, and which for certain reaons I hould think, when your cold is gone, you might ing as well as Farinelli, from the great reemblance there is between your perons. I know not what you mean by encouragement to your hopes; if I could have conceived my innocent freedoms could have been o mirepreented, I hould have been more upon my guard: but you have taught me how to watch my actions for the future, and to preerve myelf even from any upicion of forfeiting the regard I owe to the memory of the bet of men, by any future choice. The remembrance of that dear peron makes me incapable of proceeding farther.

And o firm was this reolution, that he would never afterwards admit of the leat familiarity with the depairing Mrs. Hamilton, but perhaps that detiny which is remarked to interpoe in all matrimonial things, had taken the widow into her protection: for in a few days afterwards, he was married to one Jack Strong, a cadet in an Irih regiment.

Our adventurer being thus diappointed in her love, and what is wore, her money drawing towards an end, began to have ome thoughts of returning home, when fortune eemed inclined to make her amends for the tricks he had hitherto played her, and accordingly now threw another Mitres in her way, whoe fortune was much upe- rior