HISTORY
OF
CRAZY JANE.
This unfortunate beauty, whose wanderings of ⟨imagination⟩, through an ill-fated attachment, had ⟨coined⟩ her the appellation of Crazy Jane, was the ⟨youngest⟩daughter of Mr Arnold, a substantial ⟨farmer⟩ in Wiltshire. He had four children by ⟨Margaretta⟩, his excellent wife, who was still living; ⟨Lubin⟩, Lucy, Annetta, and the lovely Jane, who, ⟨from⟩ her earliest childhood, was remarkable for ⟨her⟩ superior beauty, and elegance of her person; ⟨and⟩ justly bore away the palm of admiration from ⟨her⟩ juvenile companions. Her loug hair, which ⟨was⟩ naturally formed into the most beauteous ⟨tresses⟩, was of the lightest brown; her eyes were ⟨of⟩ the deepest blue, and at each glance shot forth ⟨a⟩ radiant lustre beaming with expressions. She ⟨was⟩ tall, slender, and exquisitely formed. Her ⟨lips⟩ were coral, and her skin the unsullied mountain snow. Her voice was melodiously sweet; and ⟨an⟩ innocent, artless gaiety, displayed itself in all ⟨her⟩ actions. Such was Jane at the age of seventeen. As yet her heart was free from the engraving power of love. Her beauty had, indeed, ⟨attracted⟩ many suitors, but none of them had ⟨succeeded⟩ in gaining the affections of the youthful ⟨maid⟩. Lubin, her only brother, was in his twenty-⟨fourth⟩ year, and was as much endowed with ⟨masculine⟩, as his sister was with feminine beauty. ⟨Lucy⟩ and Annetta might both be entitled to the ⟨denomination⟩ of pretty agreeable girls, but no ⟨further⟩.
About two miles distant from farmer Arnold,
