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( 18 ) ay, but, I really aure you. I can live no longer without you, I am, o much, Madam, Your incere admirer,R, L.

From the Young Lady in Reply.

Sir,

no more fond of the fahionable modes of courthip than yourelf. Plain dealing, I acknowledge, is bet; but methinks, common decency hould always be preerved

Our acquaintance has been no longer than ix months—too hort a time, I think, to form an opinion of one's dipoition; and I aure you, Sir, I hope, the man that is detined to be my huband may know me perfectly, while he is my lover.

There is omething o peculiar and whimical in your manner of expreion, that I am abolutely at a los to determine whether you are erious, or only write for your own amuement. I mut, therefore, beg leave to decline all further remarks upon this ubject, till we are better known to each other, and you explain yourelf in more intelligible terms. I hall then, perhaps, be better able to form a judgement of your paion, and more capable of returning a proper anwer. What influence your future addrees may have over me, I cannot poibly ay, but to be more free and candid, your preent attempts have made no impreion upon the heart of 1em