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"aunt, & arrived here after a tedious Journey""this Morning. On enquiring for his House""I was directed thro'through this Wood, to the one"" you there see. With a heart elated by the ""expected happineſs of beholding him I"" entered it & had proceeded thus far in ""my progreſs thro'through it, when I found myself"" suddenly seized by the leg & on examining "" the cause of it, found that I was caught "" in one of the steel traps so common""in gentlemen's1 grounds."

" Ah cried Lady Williams, how fortunate""we are to meet with you; sinceor we might""otherwiseperhaps have shared the like misfortune"

" It is indeed happy for you Ladies, that "

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