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 not the natural expressions; for respects of fashion and sound necessarily forbid it.

Resuming now my history, you may please to know, that what with a competent number of repetitions, all in the same strain, (and by the bye, we have a certain natural sense that those repetitions are very much to the taste of) what with a circle of pleasures delicately varied, there was not a moment lost to joy all the time we staid there, till late in the night, we were re-escorted home by our 'squires, who deliver'd us safe to Mrs. Cole, with generous thanks for our company.

This too was Emily's last adventure in our way; for scarce a week after, she was, by an accident too trivial to detail to you the particulars, found out by her parents, who were in very good circumstances, and who had been punish'd for their partiality to their son, in the loss of him, occasion'd by a circumstance of their over-indulgence to his appetite: upon which, the so long engross'd stream of fond-