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28 for the time; but when thoe years are flown, and ene is not ubtituted in the tead of vivacity, the follies of youth are acted over, and they never conider, that the things which pleae in their proper eaon, digut out of it. It is very aburd to ee a woman, whoe brow time has marked with wrinkles, aping the manners of a girl in her teens.

I do not think it foreign to the preent ubject to mention the trifling converations women are motly fond of. In general, they are prone to ridicule. As they lay the greatet tres on manners, the mot repectable characters