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Rh number) hould never ee a novel. As he was a woman of fortune and fahion, they had various maters to attend them, and a ort of menial governes to watch their footteps. From their maters they learned how tables, chairs, &c. were called in French and Italian; but as the few books thrown in their way were far above their capacities, or devotional, they neither acquired ideas nor entiments, and paed their time when not compelled to repeat words, in dreing, quarrelling with each other, or convering with their maids by tealth, till they were brought into company as marriageable.

Their mother, a widow, was buy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as he termed a numerous acquaintance, let her girls hould want a proper introduction into the great world. And thee young ladies, with minds vulgar in every ene of the word, and poiled tempers, entered life puffed up with notions of their own conequence, and looking down with contempt on thoe who could not vie with them in dres and parade.

With repect to love, nature, or their nures, had taken care to teach them the phyical meaning of the word; and, as they had few topics of converation, and fewer refinements of entiment, they expreed their gros wihes not in very delicate phraes, when they poke freely, talking of matrimony.

Could thee girls have been injured by the perual of novels? I almot forgot a hade in the character of one of them; he affected a implicity bordering on folly, and with a imper would Rh