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adorned Honora. To her the yet love- 

 lucklefs fage transferred the heart, which 

 Honora had with iighs refigned. Eliza- 

 beth told Mr. Day me could have loved 

 him, if he had acquired the manners of 

 the world, inftead of thofe auftere flngu- 

 larities of air, habit, and addrefs. 



He began to impute to them the fickle- 

 nefs of his firft love; the involuntary icinefe 

 of the charming Honora, as well as that 

 for which her fifter accounted. He told 

 Elizabeth, that, for her fake, he would' 

 renounce his prejudices to external refine- 

 ments, and try to acquire them. He 

 would go to Paris for a year, and commit 

 himfelf to dancing and fencing matters. 

 He did fo ; flood daily an hour or two in 

 frames, to fcrew back his flioulders, and 

 point his feet; he prafHfed the military 

 gait, the fafhionable bow, minuets, and 

 cotillions ; but it was too late ; habits, fo 

 long fixed, could no more than partially be 



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