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" low him. He is too old for me." 

 " Nay, madam, what are fifteen years on 

 " the right fide ?" She replied, with an 

 arch fmile, " I have had fb much of that 

 " right fide !"" 



"tfhe confeffion was thought inaufpicious 

 to tife Dodor's hopes ; but it did not 

 prove 1> ; the triumph of intellect was 

 completed. Without that native perception 



and awSk^ned tafte for literary excellence, 



- / 

 which 9 the firft charming Mrs. Darwin 



poflefled, this lady became tenderly fen- 

 fible of the flattering difference between the 

 attachment of a man of genius, and wide 

 celebrity, and that of young fox-hunting 

 efquires; dafliing militaries, and pedantic 

 gownfmen ; for fhe was faid to have fpe- 

 cimens of all thefe clafles in her train. 

 They could fpeak their own paffion, but 

 could not immortalize her charms. How- 

 ever benevolent, friendly, and fweet-tem- 

 pered, fhe was not perhaps exadly the 

 woman to, have exclairjied with Akenfide, 



L 3 " Mind, 



