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 From the sprightly gaiety of Henry, which to flow spontaneously from a pure unsophisticated heart, no one around him had suspected  traits of vice that lay lurking in his breast. person and behaviour were formed to captivate, he rarely failed to excite either friendship, or  more ardent passion, love, in those objects  he laboured to inspire with them.

His being Jane's escort introduced him to Mr. and his wifowife [sic], who, pleased with tho manners of their new visitor, and in consideration of being the brother of their dear Rosetta, gave  a general invitation to the farm, which he  embraced; and availed himself of every  that offered, to be in company with  innocent Jane, and whisper in her ears soft  of love, and declarodeclare [sic] an affection never to end  with life. The heart of the youthful maid not proof against the seducivoseductive [sic] powers of his tongue. Henry soon gained the entiroentire [sic] possession her affections; nor was he long ignorant of her  in his favour. The pleasing confirmation, instead of inspiring him with the wish of her his own by indissolubloindossoluble [sic] ties, and sharing  her the inestimable blessings of domestic, only prompted him to proceed in a base  he had formed against her honour, even at  first interview. A base ambition fired soul. Not content with the handsome competency which he would eventually derive his father, and a genteel subsistence that he  earn himself, he had pre-determined never  marry, unless he could meet with some woman  an independent fortune in her own hands. , for no other purpose than gaining such an would he ever have bestowed a thought on