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The Father's Reply, returning thanks.
Impressed with a juſt ſenſe of my dear friend's good-nature and benevolence, I really feel, but cannot poſſibly expreſs, how much I am indebted to him. Accept my thanks for the kind care and aſſiduity you have manifeſted in complying with my requeſts; and believe me, that, from the great recommendation you have given of the ſchool, I ſhall not only prefer it to any other, but ſend my ſon there without further loſs of time.
From a Lady to her Friend in the Country.
My dear friend will, I hope, excuſe the taſk I am about impoſing on her, when ſhe conſiders the neceſſity of the buſineſs. My daughter Harriot, is now arrived to an age that is not only the moſt capable of acquiring, but alſo of retaining inſtructions. I think it the duty of all fond mothers, according to the beſt of their abilities, to give their daughters a good education. A young lady poſſeſſed of theſe deſirable accompliſhments, which can only be derived from proper governeſſes, needs no further qualifications to encounter the viciſſitudes of life. I requeſt, then, you will make a ſpeedy application to your neighbour, Mrs.——. I wiſh to know her terms of teaching Dancing, Muſic, Engliſh, French, and eſpecially all manner of needle-work; for, though Harriot will be miſtreſs of a good fortune, it is, notwithſtanding, indiſputably
