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go and see your Aunt's plants — There is one ofthem that I quite doat on and two or threemore besides —"

"Can Camilla's explanation be true? saidCatherine to herself, when her freind had left the room. And after all my doubts and Uncertainties, can Stanley really be averse toleaving England for my sake only? "Hisplans interrupted." And what indeed canhis plans be, but towards Marriage? Yetso soon to be in love with me! — But it is the effect perhaps only of a warmth ofheart which to me is the highest recom::mendation in any one. A Heart disposedto love And such under the appearanceof so much Gaity and Inattention, is Stanly's! Oh! how much does it endear him to me! But he is gone Gone perhaps for years — Obliged to tear himself from what he mostloves, his happineſs is sacrificed to the vani::ty of his Father! In what anguish he must

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