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 is; but your sister here will coax him into it; I know he can refuse her nothing."

It were in vain to attempt describing to you what I suffered, when, worn out by their teazing and urgent opportunity, I at length was prevailed on to speak to my father on the subject of my sister's unpaid bills. I anticipated all that he would feel upon the occasion; for though I well knew, that no one regards money less for its own sake than he does, I likewise knew that few consider extravagance in a light so serious as that in which he views it. He considers it as the parent of every vice, and the grave of every virtue; and has therefore laboured to impress a just abhorrence of it upon our minds. You may then imagine what an effect the knowledge of my sister's extravagance produced upon him. It instantly impressed him with an idea of her levity, and want of principle, which it is impossible to eradicate, and from which he forebodes