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Unfortunate Situation of Females
worſe, to live with ſtrangers, who are ſo intolerably tyrannical, that none of their own relations can bear to live with them, though they ſhould even expect a fortune in reverſion. It is impoſſible to enumerate the many hours of anguiſh ſuch a perſon muſt ſpend. Above the ſervants, yet conſidered by them as a ſpy, and ever reminded of her inferiority when in converſation with the ſuperiors. If ſhe cannot condeſcend to mean flattery, ſhe has not a chance of being a favorite; and ſhould any of the viſitors take notice of her, and ſhe for a moment forget her ſubordinate ſtate, ſhe is ſure to be reminded of it.
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