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world, the memory of\ which belief, the reverse of 
Spanith coins preserves by contradicting. 
When I was walking slowly down the hill, I was 
pafsed by the lady I had before seen riding on the 
afs. She was in earnest conversation with a very 
plain looking man, who. walked at her foot. She. 
left him at the first town, and went up to a neat farm 
house ;—-the man went on towards Genoa. I soon 
came up with him, and we began a conversation. 
He superintended the management of a small sae 
under the lady who had left him. 
Ladies generally sink or rise to the station of 
their hufbands. Where the lady is taken from a 
very low rank, fhe never gets up quite so high, and 
the hufband is sure to sink somewhat till they meet. 
When this happens, he does not 4ll that place in so- 
ciety, nor is that personal respect paid him, to which 
by his abilities, he seems entitled. : 
The story of the lady upon the afs suggested 
these afsertions. If they run counter to your own 
observations, read the following examples intended 
to support them. 
A French nobleman of great distinction, who had 
almost ruined his fortune, retired to give it a little 
nursing at Genoa, where he soon became acquainted 
with the father of this lady. The count himself 
placed all his visits to the score of the old gentleman, 
in whose conversation he took great pleasure, and 
the world did so too; for he was a man of genius 
and learning. Perhaps they were both in, the right 
at first, as his pafsion for the lady, who was then in 
the bloom of youth and beauty, grew upon him in- 
