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 *bles Sophia Western more than any of your beauties; she has the taste and genius of your heroine; the understanding of her first friend, with all the fascinating softness of your hero's younger sister. Maria, wishing to shift the subject of conversation from herself, made some remark on the one who first appeared likely to prove the hero, and wished it had been possible to have carried on the story without his death; but I don't see how it could have been managed. "I could have been very well pleased," said Hamilton, "if that fiery youth had wreaked his vengeance on the villainous attorney and his two sons." Maria now, at the request of Hamilton, favoured them with a song, which happened to be "One day I heard Mary say," which she performed with exquisite taste and pathos, and ap