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 cheerful Serenity in the Mind, than any of thoe dangerous Effects which we have mentioned; but in fact, Senations of this Kind, however delicious, are, at their firt Recognition, of a very tumultuous Nature, and have very little of the Opiate in them. They were, moreover, in the preent Cae, embittered with certain Circumtances, which being mixed with weeter Ingredients, tended altogether to compoe a Draught that might be termed bitter-weet; than which, as nothing can be more diagreeable to the palate, o nothing, in the metaphorical Sene, can be o injurious to the Mind.

For firt, though he had ufficient Foundation to flatter himelf on what he had oberved in Sophia, he was not yet free from Doubt of micontruing Compaion, or, at bet, Eteem, into a warmer Regard. He was far from a anguine Aurance that Sophia had any uch Affection towards him, as might promie his Inclinations that Harvet, which, if they were encouraged and nured, they would finally grow up to require. Beides, if he could hope to find no Bar to his Happines from the Daughter, he thought himelf certain of meeting an effectual Bar in the Father; who, though he was a Country Squire in his Diverions,