change my tone
The time is indeed arrived,
when I have been promised by " the Hanourable
Men" who, nine years ago, undertook to fee
that my family obtained the provifion their
grandfather deligned for them,-that "all
hould be well, all fhould be fettled." But ftill
I am condemned to feel the 4 hope delayed that
maketh the heart fick." Still to receive-not a
repetition of promises indeed-but of fcrn and
infult, when I apply to thofe gentlemen, who,
though they acknowledge that all impediments
to a divifion of the eftate they have undertaken
to manage, are done away-will neither tell me
when they wil1 proceed to divide it, or whether
they will cver do fo at all. You know the cir
cumftances under which I have now fo long
been labouring; and you have done me the
honor to fay, that few Women could fo long
have contended with them. With thefe, how
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PREFACE
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