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her Vanity I dare say made her beheve She was a 

 Star dropped from the heavens to ornament this 

 Hearth — but dificulties augmented and of Course 

 drawing seased to please, I could not well find time 

 to finish every piece that I had began for her, and 

 Constancy the Lady said was [not belonging] never 

 to be found the Companion of Genius — toward the 

 Last she Would be unwell when I walk<^ in, Yawn'^ 

 and postponed to the morrow — I believe the Husband 

 saw her Weakness, but the good Man Like one or Two 

 More of My Acquaintances Was Weaker still — 



I Knew well that My conduct had been correct 

 and I felt a great pleasure in Leaving them, and, the 

 One hundred Dollars I had hearned with them 



The Dimitry familly on Whose's Daughters I had 

 the pleasure of attending as a Drawing Master — had 

 become peculiarly agreable and I left them with 

 anxiety for their wellfare and the pleasure that an- 

 ticipation produces, having some Hopes of seeing 

 them Next Winter, — Young Dimitry I never will for- 

 get a Youth of More genuine Natural Ability I never 

 have Met — his sarcastism had much the turn of D"" 

 Walcot's I Rec^ from the Young Ladies Miss Aimee 

 & Euphrosine Two handsome Plants for My Beloved 

 Lucy that I forward^ under the Care of Cap« 

 De Hart— 



My True friend R. Pamar and his most amiable 

 and Kind Wife I have to thank for all that I can Call 



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