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 This obtained me a dispensation, and the promotress of this amusement was desired to begin.

Her name was Emily, a girl fair to excess, and whose limbs were if possible too well-made, since their plump fulness was rather to the prejudice of that delicate slimness of shape required by the nicer judges of beauty: her eyes were blue, and stream'd inexpressible sweetness, and nothing could be prettier than her mouth, and lips, which closed over a range of the evenest, whitest teeth. Thus she began.

Neither my extraction, nor the most critical adventure of my life, are sublime enough to impeach me of any vanity in the advancement of the proposal you have approved of. My father and mother were, and for ought I know, are still, farmers in the country, not above forty miles from town. Their barbarity to me, in favour of a son, on whom only they vouchsafed to bestow their tenderness, had a thousand times determined me to fly their Rh