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( 8 ) comprehend you, and do justice to the generosity and delicacy of your notions, which indeed are quite of a piece with your general conduct; and I entirely agree with you in the main as to the propriety of of doing every thing one could by way of providing for a child one had in a manner taken into one’s own hands; and I am sure that I should be the last person in the world to withhold my mite upon such an occasion. Having no children of my own, who should I look to in any little manner I may ever have to bestow, but the children of my sisters?—and I am sure Mr. Norris is too just—but you know I am a woman of few words and professions. Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by a trifle. Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to any body. A niece of our’s, Sir Thomas, I may say, or, at least of your’s, would not grow up in this neighbourhood, with- out