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will oblige me very much by desiring your sonto leave Cheattwynde1, or I cannot be answerable forwhat may happen between him and my Neice.You will be surprised to hear me say it, she continued, lowering her voice, but truth will out, and I must own that Kitty is one of themost impudent Girls that ever existed. Her intimacies with Young Men are abominable, and it is all the same to her, who it is, no one comes amiſs to her – I aſsure you Sir, that I have seen her sit and laugh and whisper with ayoung Man whom she has not seen above half a dozen times. Her behaviour indeed is scanda::lous, and therefore I beg you will send your Son away immediately, or everything will be at sixes& sevens." Mr Stanley who from one part of her Speech had scarcely known to what length her insinuations of Kitty's impudence were meant to extend, now endeavoured to quiet herfears on the occasion, by aſsuring her, that on every

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