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overcome. The endeavour, made at in- 

 tervals, and by vt/tblc effort, was more 

 really ungraceful than the natural ftoop, 

 and unfafhionable air. The ftudied bow 

 on entrance, the fuddcnly recollected af- 

 fumptlon of attitude, prompted the riiible 

 inftead of the admiring fenfation ; neither 

 was the fhowy drefs, in which he came 

 "back to his fair one, a jot more becoming. 

 Poor Elizabeth reproached her, reluctant 

 but infuppreffive ingratitude, upon which 

 all this labour, thefc facrifices had been 

 wafted. She confefled, that Thomas Day, 

 blackguard, as he ufed jeftingly to ftyle 

 himfelf, lefs difpleafed her eye than Tho- 

 mas Day, Jine gent /eman. 



Thus again difappointed, he refumcd 

 his accuftomed plainnefs of garb, and 

 neglect of his perfon, and went again upon 

 the continent for another year, with pur- 

 fuits of higher aim, more congenial to his 

 talents and former principles. Returning 



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