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keeping, by telling her of well-invented 

 dangers to himfelf, in which greater dan- 

 ger would refult from it's being difcovered 

 that he was aware of them, he once or 

 twice detected her having imparted them, 

 to the fervants, and to her play- fellows. 



She betrayed an averfenefs to the ftudy 

 of books, and of the rudiments of fci- 

 ence, which gave little promife of abi- 

 lity, that fhould, .one day, be refponfible 

 for the education of youths, who were to 

 emulate the Gracchi. 



Mr. Day perfifted in thefe experiments, 

 and fuftained their continual difappoint- 

 ment during a year's refidence in the vici- 

 nity of Lichfield. The difficulty feemed to 

 lie in giving her motive to exertion, felf-de- 

 nial, and heroifm. It w r as againft his plan to 

 draw it from the ufual fources, pecuniary 

 reward, luxury, ambition, or vanity. His 

 watchful cares had precluded all knowledge 

 of the value of money, the reputation of 



beauty. 



