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Barlows Barkers too are just such other sweet Girls; but I wish Augusta's hair was not so dark.I cannot bear Sir Peter — Horrid Wretch! He isalways laid up with the Gout, which is exceed::ingly disagreable to the Family. "

"And perhaps not very pleasant to himself —. But as to the Wynnes; do you really thinkthem very fortunate?"

"Do I? Why, does not every body? Miſs Halifax & Caroline & Maria all say that they are theluckiest Creatures in the World. So does Sir GeorgeFitzgibbon and so do Every body."

"That is, Every body who have themselves con::ferred an obligation on them. But do you callit lucky, for a Girl of Genius & Feeling to besent in quest of a Husband to Bengal, to bemarried there to a Man of whose Disposition shehas no opportunity of judging till her Judgementis of no use to her, who may be a Tyrant, or a Foolor both for what she knows to the Contrary. Doyou call that fortunate?"

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