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sword in their own hands. Hoping to hear of your health and happiness, I remain,
Dear Miss, your dutiful servant,
Roderick Robthetill.
Miss Touchandgo replied as follows, to the first of these letters:
My dear Father,
I am sure you have the best of hearts, and I have no doubt you have acted with the best intentions. My lover, or I should rather say, my fortune's lover, has indeed forsaken me. I cannot say I did not feel it; indeed, I cried very much; and the altered looks of people who used to be so delighted to see me, really annoyed me so, that I determined to change the scene altogether. I have come into Wales, and am boarding with a farmer and his wife. Their stock of English is very small; but I managed to agree with them,
