loved.
I WOULD therefore most earnestly recommend it to all those, who are so happy as to be united to the object of their choice, to set the merits and attractions of each other, in the fairest point of view to themselves, and never, even for a moment, to cast their eyes on the wrong side of the tapestry.
YOUR account of the kindness, with which lady Lawson received her wandering swain, very fully proves that she is an excellent wife; but is by no means a refutation of the reports relative

to him and miss Fanning. Your ignorance of the world and its ways, make such scenes appear extraordinary to you.—But alas! they are too frequent to be wondered at, in such times as these.
I SHALL not, my dear Emily, insist upon your writing from York, if it is inconvenient to you: but as Fanny Weston tells Lucy, that you do not set out from Woodfort this fortnight, every day of which I dare say, she thinks a year; I may flatter myself with the hopes of hearing from you, perhaps more than once before you go.
THAT surprize encreases our emotions, I readily admit; but, as you had no reason to doubt the tenderness of Lucy's nature, or mine, you might have communicated your own sensations, without fear of abating ours.
SIR John is gone to London, for a short time; and Lucy and I are to spend the days of his absence, not in retirement, as you might possibly suppose, but in discharging a heavy debt of visits, which we owe to all the neighbourhood for five miles round. I think there are few small evils that torture us so much, as what is generally called a good neighbourhood in the country.


HEALTH, and her fair handmaid chearfulness, attend my dear Emily.



MY dear Fanny is extremely kind, in seeming to set so high a value upon my small, or rather no merit, in writing to her; for indeed I can never claim any, for what is to me the highest self indulgence.—So a truce with your compliments, my too civil sister.
DO not be angry, Fanny; but I really cannot think with you, that true affection should be founded on illusion, which must be the case, if we are to be totally blind to the failings of those we love.—On the contrary, I have always considered the raising our ideas, of the persons we are to be united to, too romantically high, as one great source of matrimonial unhappiness. By that means we became enamoured