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be with us next week. This is all mostkindly meant inby1 my Uncle & Cousins; but what can the presence of a dozen indifferentpeople do to me, but weary & distreſs me –.I will not finish my Letter till some ofour Visitors are arrived. 

Friday Evening

Lady Bridget came this Morning, and withher, her sweet Sister Miſs Jane –. Although I have been acquainted with this charming Woman above fifteen Years, Yet I never before observed how lovely she is. She is now a::bout 35, & in spite of sickneſs, Sorrow and Time is more blooming than I ever saw a Girl of 17. I was delighted with her, the moment she entered the house, & she ap::peared equally pleased with me, attaching herself to me during the remainder of the

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