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did our feelings & our Actions coincide! We both eagerly embraced the proposals we gave & received of becoming one family, & have from that time lived together in the great::est affection."

"And is this all"?1 said I, I hope you havenot done."

"Indeed I have; and did you ever hear a Story more pathetic?"

"I never did — and it is for that reason it pleases me so much, for when one is unhappy nothing is so delightful to one's sensationsas to hear of equal Misery."

"Ah! but my Sophia why are you unhappy?"

"Have you not heard Madam of Willouhgby's Marriage?" "But my Love why lament his perfidy, when you bore so well that of manyyoung Men before?" "Ah! Madam. I was used to it then, but when Willoughby broke his Engagements I had not been diſsapointed forhalf a year." "Poor Girl!" said Miſs Jane.

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