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complexion and very pretty features, that she al--ready knows the two first Letters in the Alphabet,and that she never tears her frocks –. If I have notnow convinced you of her Beauty, Sense & Prudence,I have nothing more to urge in support of my aſser::tion, and you will therefore have no way of deci-:ding the Affair but by coming to Lesley-castle,and by a personal acquaintance with Louisa, de--termine for yourself. Ah! my dear Freind, how happyshould I be to see you within these venerable Walls!It is now four years since my removal from Schoolhas separated me from you; that two too such tender Hearts, so closely linked together by the ties of sim::pathy and Freindship, should be so widely removedfrom each other is vastly moving. I live in

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