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her good wiſhes to her fellow-creatures, an ejaculation to Heaven for the welfare of her friends is the ſubſtitute. This circumſtance I heard her mention to her grandfather, who ſometimes viſits her.

I will now make ſome alteration in my dreſs, for when I viſit thoſe who have been reduced from their original place in ſociety by misfortunes, I always attend a little to ceremony; lest too much familiarity ſhould appear like diſrespect.


CHAP. XVIII.

Viſit to the School-miſtreſs.—True and falſe Pride.

THEIR dreſs was ſoon adjuſted, and the girls plucked flowers to adorn themselves, and a noſegay to present to the ſchool-mistreſs, whoſe garden was but ſmall.

They met the children juſt releaſed from confinement; the ſwarm came humming

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