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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