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not suspect me of condemning her. The situation she <a href="http://www.toryburch-outletssale.com/"><strong>Tory Burch Outlet</strong></a> was <a href="http://www.toryburch-outletssale.com/"><strong>Tory Burch Outlet</strong></a> in with Mrs. , is, of all others, the least favourable to matrimony. Men of small pretentions would not look up to her, and men of great ones would look above her. In effect the experiment has been tried for ten years, and every year <a href="http://www.toryburch-outletssale.com/"><strong>Tory Burch Flats</strong></a> makes the chance considerably worse. What then was more natural, or indeed more reasonable, than to lower her views, and accept a man she likes, a gentleman and a man of character, (for this I presume is the case, as I have heard nothing s***ested to the contrary), with the prospect of living on a narrow income ? And what have her friends to do on the occasion but to assist ber as far as they can, to make out a reasonable competence ? 1 hope Mrs. 's displeasure will not affect her intentions of benefiting her adopted daughter ; for had she been her real daughter, at her time of life, it can hardly be disputed that she had aright to judge for herself, and has not forfeited any claim to kindness by seeking her own happiness in a lawful, and (in rank and education) not unsuitable marriage. LETTER LXIII. London, November, 1797. *' I have been returned to town about a fortnight, after spending two months with my friend Mrs. Ogle, at the Deanery of Winchester. I could not there reckon myself in the country, which I enjoyed only during the few weeks I was at Hadley. But never was a summer and autumn in which one had so little reason to regret being surrounded with brick and tile ; and my good friend carried me an airing every tolerable day, which helped my •ealth, though I cannot boast of it much. I brought a bad cold with me to town, which the The preface to a book may in some measure be compared to the prologue to a play, which, though it presume not to bespeak the unqualified approbation of the audience, yet tends to deprecate the mortification of severe censure. In like manner, the editors of the following pages, though far from expecting unanimous applause, are yet willing to hope that the productions of a pen so unsullied, and the genuine display of a character so respectable as that of Mrs. Chapone, will maintain their ground on the present stage of English literature. The custom at present prevails of |
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