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tible.—Well—now for the explanation of my being here.—I told you in my Letter, of the two considerable Families, I was hoping to secure for you—the West Indians, & the Seminary.—" Here Mr P. drew his Chair still nearer to his Sister, & took her hand again most affectionately as he answered "Yes, Yes;—How active & how kind you have been!"—"The West-indians, she continued, whom I look upon as the most desirable of the two—as the Best of the Good—prove to be a Mrs Griffiths & her family. I know them only through others.—You must have heard me mention Miss Capper, the particular friend of my very particular friend Fanny Noyce;—now, Miss Capper is extremely intimate with a Mrs Darling, who is on terms of constant correspondence with Mrs Griffiths

herself.—Only a short chain, you see,

between