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Daughter of eighteen.
Elfrida, who had found her former ac:
:quaintance
were growing too old & too ugly
to be any longer agreable, was rejoiced to
hear of the arrival of so pretty a girl as
Eleanor with whom she determined to form
the strictest freindship.
But the Happineſs she had expected
from an acquaintance with Eleanor, she
soon found was not to be received, for she had
not only the mortification of finding her:
:self
treated by her as little leſs than an
old woman, but had actually the horror
of perceiving a growing paſsion in the
Bosom of Frederic for the Daughter of the
amiable Rebecca.
The instant she had the first idea of such an attachment, she flew to