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 As thee had both exercied their Talents chiefly in the Study of Divinity, this was, from their firt Acquaintance, the mot common Topic of Converation between them. The Captain, like a well-bred Man, had, before Marriage, always given up his Opinion to that of the Lady; and this, not in the clumy, aukward Manner of a conceited Blockhead, who, while he civilly yields to a Superiour in an Argument, is deirous of being till known to think himelf in the Right. The Captain, on the contrary, tho’ one of the proudet Fellows in the World, o abolutely yielded the Victory to his Antagonit, that he, who had not the leat Doubt of his Sincerity, retired always from the Dipute with an Admiration of her own Undertanding, and a Love for his.

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