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 amue her, and engaged in frequent traffic with the milliners at Contantinople, that I might be the firt to procure the improvements of female dres, according to the latet fahion of the metropolis, which I conveyed by various ways to the lady of my heart, o that he could eaily divine the author of thee gallantries.

Hadt thou any experience in the affairs of love, my on, thou wouldt not be ignorant that uch apparently inignificant attentions are, in the world of gallantry, a kind of hieroglyphics which the uninitiated take for empty toying and trifling, but which have as determinate a ene as letters and words in common language; they are a pecies of free-maon’s dialect, which two, who are in the ecret, can employ, in the preence of a third peron, who may, for any thing he knows, be bought or old; whereas the lovers undertand every word without further comment or explanation.