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THE
HISTORY
OF
CRAZY JANE.


BY SARAH WILKINSON.


THE unfortunate beauty, whose wanderings of imagination through an ill-fated attachment, had gained her the appellation of Crazy Jane, was the youngest daughter of Mr Arnold, a substantial farmer in Wiltshire. He had four children by Margaret, his excellent wife, who was still living,) Lubin, Lucy, Annette, and the lovely Jane, who, from, her earliest childhood, was remarkable for her superior beauty, and the elegance of her person; and justly bore away the palm of admiration from her juvenile companions. Her long hair, which was naturally formed into the most beauteous tresses, was of the lightest brown: her eyes were of the deepest blue; and at each glance shot forth a radiant lustre beaming with expression. She was tall, slender, and