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The heart is perhaps never so sensible of happiness as after a short separation from the object of its affections. If that separation has been attended with peculiar circumstances of distress or danger, every misery that has been experienced, tends by the force of contrast to increase the emotions of delight, and gives to the pleasure of reunion an inexpressible degree of tenderness.

Miss Hamilton.

is doubtless hard to die; but it is agreeable to hope we shall not live here for ever, and that a better life will