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Rh yet he aw his faults; his principles were unfixed, and his prodigal turn would have obliged her to have retrained every benevolent emotion of her heart. She exerted her influence to improve him, but in vain did he for years try to do it. Convinced of the impoibility, he determined not to marry him, though he was forced to encounter poverty and its attendants.

It is too univeral a maxim with novelits, that love is felt but once; though it appears to me, that the heart which is capable of receiving an impreion at all, and can ditinguih, will turn to a new object when the firt is found