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unfortunate beauty, whose wanderings of, through an ill-fated attachment, had her the appellation of Crazy Jane, was the daughter of Mr Arnold, a substantial  in Wiltshire. He had four children by, his excellent wife, who was still living; , Lucy, Annetta, and the lovely Jane, who, her earliest childhood, was remarkable for  superior beauty, and elegance of her person;  justly bore away the palm of admiration from  juvenile companions. Her louglong [sic] hair, which naturally formed into the most beauteous, was of the lightest brown; her eyes were  the deepest blue, and at each glance shot forth  radiant lustre beaming with expressions. She tall, slender, and exquisitely formed. Her were coral, and her skin the unsullied mountain snow. Her voice was melodiously sweet; and innocent, artless gaiety, displayed itself in all  actions. Such was Jane at the age of seventeen. As yet her heart was free from the engraving power of love. Her beauty had, indeed, many suitors, but none of them had  in gaining the affections of the youthful. Lubin, her only brother, was in his twenty- year, and was as much endowed with, as his sister was with feminine beauty. and Annetta might both be entitled to the of pretty agreeable girls, but no.

About two miles distant from farmer Arnold,