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Rh and blind indulgence. Unable to educate her ons, or impres them with repect; for it is not a play on words to aert, that people are never repected, though filling an important tation, who are not repectable; he pines under the anguih of unavailing impotent regret. The erpent's tooth enters into her very oul, and the vices of licentious youth bring her with orrow, if not with poverty alo, to the grave.

This is not an overcharged picture; on the contrary, it is a very poible cae, and omething imilar mut have fallen under every attentive eye.

I have, however, taken it for granted, that he was well-dipoed, though experience hews, that the blind may as eaily be led into a ditch as along the beaten road. But uppoing no very improbable conjecture, that a being only taught to pleae mut till find her happines in pleaing;—what an example of folly, not to ay vice, will he be to her innocent daughters! The mother will be lot in the coquette, and intead of making friends of her daughters, view them with eyes akance, for they are rivals—rivals more cruel than any other, becaue they invite a comparion, and drive her from the throne of beauty, who has never thought of a eat on the bench of reaon.

It does not require a lively pencil, or the dicriminating outline of a caricature, to ketch the dometic mieries and petty vices which uch a mitres of a family diffues. Still he only acts as a woman ought to act, brought up according to Roueau's ytem. She can never be proached&ensp;