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very noble & majectic in the figures of theMiſs Lesleys, and something agreably Livelyin the Appearance of their pretty little Mother--in-law. But tho'though one may be majectic & theother Lively, yet the faces of neither poſseſsthant1 Bewitching Sweetneſs of my Eloisas, whichher present Languor is so far from diminish::ing. What would my Husband and Brother say of us, if they knew all the fine things Ihave been saying to you in this Letter. It isvery hard that a pretty Woman is never tobe told she is so by anyone of her own Sex, with::out that person's being suspected to be eitherher determined Enemy, or her profeſsed Toad-eater. How much more amiable are women in thatparticular!one Mean may say forty civil things to

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