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 INTRODUCTION. MARY and Caroline, though the children of wealthy parents were, in their infancy; left entirely to the management of ſervants, or people equally ignorant. Their mother died ſuddenly, and their father, who found them very troubleſome at home, placed them under the tuition of a woman of tenderneſs and diſcernment, a near relation, who was induced to take on herſelf the important charge through motives of compaſſion.

They were ſhamefully ignorant, conſidering that Mary had been fourteen, and Caroline twelve years in the world. If they had been merely ignorant, the taſk would, not have appeared ſo arduous; but they had caught every prejudice that the vulgar Rh