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by raising her to the rank of a Dutcheſs.Thus was she at length rendered compleatlyhappy in the gratification of her favouritepaſsion. Her sister the perfidious Sukey, waslikewise shortly after exalted in a mannershe truly deserved, & by her actions appearedto have always desired. Her barbarousMurder was discovered & in spite of everyinterceding freind she was speedily raised tothe Gallows —. The beautifull but affectedCecilia was too sensible of her own supe::rior charms, not to imagine that if Caro::line could engage a Duke, she mightwithout censure aspire to the affectionsof some Prince – & knowing that thoseof her native Country were cheifly engaged,

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