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The Three Sisters

a novel.

Letter 1st

Miſs Stanhope to Mrs

My dear Fanny

I am the happiest creature in the World, for I have just received an offer of mar:riage from Mr Watts. It is the first I haveever had & I hardly know how to value itenough. How I will triumph over the Duttons!I do not intend to accept it, at least I beleivenot, but as I am not quite certain I gavehim an equivocal answer & left him.And now my dear Fanny I want your Advice whether I should accept his offer ornot, but that you may be able to judge ofhis merits & the situation of affairs I willgive you an account of them. He is quitean old Man, about two & thirty, very plainso plain that I cannot bear to look at him.He is extremely disagreable & I hate himmore than any body else in the world. He has

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