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Understandingnoris without some pretensions to Beau::ty, but these are so very trifling,
that the value she sets on her personal charms, & the
adoration she expects them to be offered are at once a
striking example of her vanity, her pride, &her folly."
So said I, & to my opinion every oneadded weight by the
concurrence of their own.
Your affec:teaffectionate Arabella Smythe
The first Act of a Comedy–––
Characters
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