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 LOVE AND FREINDSHIP

LETTER the FIRST

From ISABEL to LAURA

OW often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones."

Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life. Isabel.

LETTER 2nd

LAURA to ISABEL

LTHO' I cannot agree with you in supposing that I shall never again be exposed to Misfortunes as unmerited as those I have already 1