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in it a little after eight, she could no longer de::ny her beleif to it. "And this, thought she to herself blushing with anger at her own folly, this is the affection for me of which I was socertain. Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable! To suppose thata young Man would be seriously attached in thecourse of four & twenty hours, to a Girl who has nothing to recommend her but a good pair of eyes! And he is really gone! Gone perhaps with::out bestowing a thought on me! Oh! why was not I up by eight o'clock? But it is aproper punishment for my Lazyneſs & Folly, and I am heartily glad of it. I deserve it all, &ten times more for such insufferable vantity1. It will at least be of service to me in thatrespect; it will teach me in future not to think Every Body is in love with me. Yet I should like to have seen him before he went, for perhapsit may be many Years before we meet again.

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'vanty' altered to 'vanity' by writing 'it' over 't'. Back to context...
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