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Rh Dignity of manners, too, and proper reerve are often wanting. The contant attendant on too much familiarity is contempt. Women are often before marriage prudih, and afterwards they think they may innocently give way to fondnes, and overwhelm the poor man with it. They think they have a legal right to his affections, and grow remis in their endeavours to pleae. There are a thouand nameles decencies which good ene gives rie to, and artles proofs of regard which flow from the heart, and will reach it, if it is not depraved. It has ever occurred to me, that is was ufficient for a woman to receive carees, and