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none of their faces so well as I do your own. Yetthey are all handsome – Lady Lesley indeed I haveseen before; her Daughters I beleive would in general be said to have a finer face than herLadyship, and Yet what with the charms ofa Blooming Complexion, a little Affectationand a great deal of Small-talk, (in each ofwhich She is superior to the Young Ladies) she will I dare say gain herself as many admirers as the more regular features of Matilda, &Margaret. I am sure that you will agree with me in saying that they can none of them beof a proper size for real Beauty, when you know that two of them are taller & the othershorter than ourselves. In spite of this Defect (or rather by reason of it) there is something

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