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expect to see you, and let me not be always vainly looking for you, till I grow sick at heart.
Adieu! I am a little hurt.—I must take my darling to my bosom to comfort me.
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LETTER XXXI.
December 30.
Should you receive three or four of the letters at once which I have written lately, do not think of Sir John Brute, for I do not mean to wife you. I only take advantage of every occasion, that one out of three of my epistles may reach your hands, and in-
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