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yet ſhe ſaw his faults; his principles were unfixed, and his prodigal turn would have obliged her to have reſtrained every benevolent emotion of her heart. She exerted her influence to improve him, but in vain did ſhe for years try to do it. Convinced of the impoſſibility, ſhe determined not to marry him, though ſhe was forced to encounter poverty and its attendants.
It is too univerſal a maxim with noveliſts, that love is felt but once; though it appears to me, that the heart which is capable of receiving an impreſſion at all, and can diſtinguiſh, will turn to a new object when the firſt is
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