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Rh he hesitate to order up the coach, she calls him "shabby fellow;" asks him if he imagined she wanted him to pay? and when she flounces into it, gives her address distinctly, that he may know where to find her, if his curiosity has been excited by what has passed. Many of these high ones, hand about cards of their address.

N.B. At whatever stage of the negociation, his good resolutions give way to her arts, matters not; from that moment he is saddled with expenses, and with inward reproaches, if not with disease; at least, so it happens in the majority of cases. Whoever hearkens to the voice of the Syren, is caught by her wiles. Tear yourselves away, then, from its sound, ye yet uncontaminated young men, 'ere it be too laie; to hearken is to be lost;—to touch is to be undone.

One general proposal is made to every Newcomer, by these higher classes of Cyprians, which is nothing less, than that he will take her into keeping. This is the rock upon which most persons of warm dispositions split: if they once give ear to her representations of its advantages and cheapness, of her love and attachment, he is ruined. It does not signify to her, that she is already in keeping of one, two, or more; she will turn them up one after another, under the impression that she is