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the age –. I beleive you never yet heard the particu::lars of his first acquaintance with her. It com::menced at our cousin Colonel Drummond's; atwhose house in Cumberland he spent the Christ::mas, in which he attained the age of two andtwenty. Louisa Burton was the Daughter of a adistant1 Relation of Mrs . Drummond, who dieinga few Months before in extreme poverty, left hisonly Child then about eighteen to the protections2of any of his Relations who would protect her.Mrs Drummond was the only one who foundherself so disposed – Louisa was therefore re::moved to an elegantfrom a miserable Cottage in Yorkshire toan elegant Mansion in Cumberland, and from

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