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up the face of one present, who, if " the course of 

 true love" does "run smooth," will be the for- 

 tunate possessor of one so lovely in mind as well as 

 form. 



It is a very natural idea, that great exertion under 

 a glowing sun must produce great suffering. In reply 

 to this, as an abstract problem, I should of course 

 say, it certainly does ; but this requires some ex- 

 planation : great exertion, if it is only of very short 

 duration, is little more felt in a hot day than a cooler 

 one ; it is continued exertion, under such circum- 

 stances, that not only produces suffering, but often 

 kills. On the occasion I allude to, I quite horrified 

 my fair interlocutor, by telling her what most cer- 

 tainly was fact, namely, that the four posters who 

 had brought her family's carriage twelve miles, with 

 six inside, two servants in the rumble, and two 

 friends on the box, had undergone more suffering 

 from the heat, than would all the race horses at the 

 meeting puttogether — though there, heats weremostly 

 run. I will explain to the reader why this is, in 

 somewhat similar terms I used on the occasion 



