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a beautifull Flora who was reclining in a studied attitude on a couch, with "Oh "Cecilia, I wish I was really what I pre":
":tend to be", she was discovered by then ever failing genius of Charles Adams, to be the elegant but ambitious Caroline Simpson, & the person to whom she addreſsed herself, he rightly imagined to be her lovely but affected sister Cecilia.

The Company now advanced to a Gaming Table where sat 3 Dominos (each with a bottle in their handby his side) deeply engaged; but a female in the character of Virtue fled with hasty footsteps from the shock:
:ing scene, whilst a little fat woman representing Envy, sate alternately on the