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young people endeavour to avoid the rock on 

 which I split." 



I could not help shewing some surprise at this, 

 for I thought it very unlike her character ; and 

 though I did not venture to express any curiosity, 

 I suppose she saw a little in my countenance., for 

 after some more conversation she said, that she 

 would give me a little sketch of her life, because 

 she thought I might derive some advantage from it. 



We had not time to begin then but I hope 

 we shall to-morrow. In the mean time I must 

 not forget to tell you, lest you should think I had 

 lost all honourable principle, that I immediately 

 informed Mrs. P. of the kind of journal which I 

 send to you and asked her permission to relate 

 to you what she tells me ; " but," said I, " if you 

 disapprove, I will not mention it." She replied, 

 " you are perfectly welcome to tell her every 

 thing for I very much disapprove of any con- 

 fidence being made to a young person that is to 

 be concealed from her mother." 



5/iv There was a lively little discussion last 

 night, on the want of originality in poetical ideas; 

 and on the manner in which the same thought is 

 repeated by one author after another ; each alter- 

 ing it, as my uncle said, in the same way that an 

 object is seen through glasses of different colours. 

 Or, said my aunt, with its original strength weak- 

 ened by each repetition, like the successive re- 



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