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86 found unworthy. I am convinced it is practicable, when a repect for goodnes has the firt place in the mind, and notions of perfection are not affixed to contancy. Many ladies are delicately mierable, and imagine that they are lamenting the los of a lover, when they are full of elf-applaue, and reflections on their own uperior refinement. Painful feelings are prolonged beyond their natural coure, to gratify our deire of appearing heroines, and we deceive ourelves as well as others. When any udden troke of fate deprives us of thoe we love, we may not readily get the better of the blow; but when we find we have been