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Rh hearts. The regulation of the behaviour is not modety, though thoe who tudy rules of decorum are, in general, termed modet women. Make the heart clean, let it expand and feel for all that is human, intead of being narrowed by elfih paions; and let the mind frequently contemplate ubjects that exercie the undertanding, without heating the imagination, and artles modety will give the finihing touches to the picture.

She who can dicern the dawn of immortality, in the treaks that hoot athwart the mity night of ignorance, promiing a clearer day, will repect, as a acred temple, the body that enhrines uch an improvable oul. True love, likewie, preads this kind of myterious anctity round the beloved object, making the lover mot modet when in her preence. So reerved is affection that, receiving or returning peronal endearments, it wihes, not only to hun the human eye, as a kind of profanation; but to diffue an encircling cloudy obcurity to hut out even the aucy parkling unbeams. Yet, that affection does not deerve the epithet of chate, which does not ceive&ensp;