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THE GUARDIAN .
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• 4. What inſtructions a mother ought to give her daughter upon ſuch occaſions, and what the
old lady's part properly is in ſuch treaties, her huſband being alive ?
• 5. How far a young lady is in duty obliged to obſerve her mother's directions, and not to
receive any letters or meflages without her
knowledge?
- 6. How far a daughter is obliged to exert
the power
ſhe has over her lover, for the eaſe
and advantage of her father and his family; and how far ſhe may conſult and endeavour the inte reſt of the family ſhe is to marry into ? 67. How far letters and confidents of both
ſexes may regularly be employed, and wherein they are improper ? 8 . When a young lady's pen is employed about ſettlements, fortunes, or the like, whether it be an affront to give the fame anſwers as if it had been in the hand -writing of thoſe that in ſtructed her.
• Laſtly, be pleaſed at your leiſure to correct that too common way amongfathers of publiſh ing in the world , that they will give their daugh ters twice the fortune they really intend, and
thereby drawing young gentlemen , whoſe eſtates are often in debt, into a dilemma,either ofcroff
ing afixed inclination, contracted by a long habit
of thinking upon the fame perſon , and ſo being miſerable that way ; or elſe beginning the world under a burden they can never get quit of.
• Thus, fage fir, have I laid before you all that does at preſent occur to me on the impor 24
