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YOUR QUALITIES SURPASS YOUR CHARMS. 285 
a young lady possessing all the charms requisite 
for the heroine of a modern novel, excepting 
that she delighted in exciting jealousy in the 
breast of her intended lord. As she was the 
only child of a widowed mother, a female cou- 
sin, possessing but little personal beauty, and 
still less fortune, had been brought up with her 
from infancy asa companion, and as a stimulus 
to her education. The humble and amiable 
Charlotte was too insignificant to attract much 
attention in the circles in which her gay cousin 
shone with so much splendour, which gave her 
frequent opportunities of imparting a portion 
of that instruction she had received to the more 
humble class of her own sex. Returning from 
one of these charitable visits, and entering the 
gay saloon of her aunt, where her exit or 
entrance was scarcely noticed, she found the 
party amusing themselves in selecting flowers, 
whilst the Count and the other beaux were to 
make verses on the choice of each of the ladies. 
Charlotte was requested to make her selection 
of a flower; the sprightly Amelia had taken a 
rose, others a carnation, a lily, or the flowers 
most likely to call forth a compliment; and 
the delicate idea of Charlotte, in selecting the 
most humble flower, by placing a sprig of migno- 
nette in her bosom, would probably have passed 
unnoticed, had not the flirtation of her cousin 
with a dashing colonel, who was more cele- 
brated for his conquests in the drawing-room 





























