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wards Charlotte, my heart finks within me; and I feel with bitterness how different I then was, from what I now am. Yes, all, all is vanished. Not a fentiment, not a pulfation of my heart is the fame; no traces of the paft remain. If the fhade of a departed prince could return to visit the fuperb palaces he had built in happy times, and left to a beloved fon; and if he found them overthrown and deftroyed by a more powerful neighbour, fuch would be his fenfations.

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LETTER LVII.

September 3.

Sometimes cannot comprehend

how it is that fhe loves another -how the dares love another, whilst

I bear her about me in this heart

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whilst she entirely fills and engroffes it whilft I think only of her, know only her, and have nothing but her in the world."

LETT ER LVIII.

September 6.

T coft me much to part with the

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blue frock which I wore the

first time I danced with Charlotte;

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I could

I could not poffibly appear in it any longer: but I have made another exactly like it, and with a buff waistcoat and breeches.

It has not however the fame effect upon me. I don't know-but I hope in time it will be as dear to

me.

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LETTER LIX.

September 15.

NE is tempted to wish one's felf at the devil, when one thinks of all the contemptible beings which Heaven suffers to crawl upon this earth, without any feeling, with

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out any idea of the things which may be interefting to others. You remember the walnut-trees at S. under which I fat with Charlotte at the worthy old vicar's. These beautiful, thefe beloved trees, how they adorned the parfonage-yard! their fhade was refreshing, it was refpectable; for it carried one back with pleafing ideas to the good pastors who planted them. The schoolmafter often mentioned the name of him who planted the oldest of them. He had it from his grandfather. This vicar was an excellent man, and under these trees his refpectable memory was ever prefent to me.

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The school-master had the tears in his eyes yesterday, when he told us they were cut down.-Cut down! I could in my fury murder the ruffian who ftruck the firft ftroke: I that should grieve if I had two fuch trees in my court, and one died of old age; I must endure this.. I have however one confolation-fuch is fentiment-the whole village murmurs at it, and I hope the good peafants will make no more prefents to the vicar's wife, and that she will fuffer for the mischief she has done in the parish-for fhe did it, the wife of the prefent incumbent (our good old man is dead) a tall, meagre, wrinkled,

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