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accident from Willingden, & thought he would have vouchsafed me an Answer. But Perhaps it implies that he iscoming himself. –I trust it may. Not unlikely. — Buthere is a Letter from one of my Sisters.They never fail me. – Women are the only Correspondents to be depended on. — NowMary, (smiling at his Wife) — before Iopen it, what shall we gueſs as to thestate of health of those it comes from –or rather what wd .would Sidney say gueſs if hewere here? – Sidney is a saucy fellow, Miſs H.Heywood — And you must know, he will haveit there is a good deal of Imagination inmytwo Sisters' complaints — but it really isnot so – or very little — They have wretchedhealth, as you have heard usfrequently say, & aresubject to a variety of very serious at times martyrs to very dreadful Dis==orders. – Indeed, I do not beleive theyknow what a day's health is; — & at the same time, they are such excellentuseful Women & have so much energyof character that, where any Good isto be done, they force themselfes on ex::ertions which to those who do not thoroughly know them, have an extra::ordinary appearance. – But there is really no affectation about them. They have

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