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to see his fair friend in such distreſs, & watched her with so much tender solicitude that I, who occasionally caught her observing his countenance with exultation, was quiteout of patience. — This pathetic representation lasted the whole evening, & so ostentatious & artful a display has entirely convinced me that she did in fact feelnothing. —

I am more angry with her than ever sinceI have seen her daughter. – The poor girl looks so un::happy that my heart aches for her. – Lady Susan is surely too severe, because Frederica does not seemto have the sort of temper to make severity neceſsary. –She looks perfectly timid, dejected & penitent. —

She is very pretty, tho' not so handsome as herMother, nor at all like her. Her complexion is deli=:cate, but neither so fair, nor so blooming as LadySusan's — & she has quite the Vernon cast of coun::tenance, the oval face & mild dark eyes, & thereis peculiar sweetneſs in her look when she speaks

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