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his person was uncommonly fine, his Spirits & Vivacity suited to her own, and his Mannersat once so animated & gentleinsinuating1, that shethought it must be impoſsible for him to beotherwisethan amiable, and was ready to give him Credit for being perfectly completely so. He knew the powers of them himself; to them he had oftenbeen endebted for his father's forgiveneſs of faults which had he been awkward & inelegant would have appeared very serious; to them, even more than to his person or his fortune, he owed the regard which almost every one was disposedto feel for him, and which young Women inparticular were inclined to entertain. disposed to feel. Their influ::ence was acknowledged on the present occasionby Kitty, whose Anger they entirely dispelled,and whose Chearfulneſs they had power not onlyto restore, but to raise —. The Evening paſsed offas agreably as the one that had preceded it; theycontinued talking to each other, during the cheif partof it, And such was the power of his Addreſs, & the

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