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... lady in the land , if fhe could but reckon up their names . you I MUST Own I conceived very extraordinary hopes of you from the moment that you con-- feffed your age , and from eight and forty , ( where you had . ftuck fo many years ) ...
... lady in the land , if fhe could but reckon up their names . you I MUST Own I conceived very extraordinary hopes of you from the moment that you con-- feffed your age , and from eight and forty , ( where you had . ftuck fo many years ) ...
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... ladies , but could not , for my life , get in a word among them and found , that if I did not change my company , was in danger of being reduced to my primitive ta- citurnity . ; The coffee - houses have ever fince been my chief places ...
... ladies , but could not , for my life , get in a word among them and found , that if I did not change my company , was in danger of being reduced to my primitive ta- citurnity . ; The coffee - houses have ever fince been my chief places ...
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... Lady , of a thin airy fhape , who was very active in this folemnity . ried a magnifying glafs in one of her hands , and was clothed in a loofe flowing robe , embroidered with feveral figures of fiends and spectres , that dis- covered ...
... Lady , of a thin airy fhape , who was very active in this folemnity . ried a magnifying glafs in one of her hands , and was clothed in a loofe flowing robe , embroidered with feveral figures of fiends and spectres , that dis- covered ...
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... ladies , who used to admire him , with a pair of fhoulders peeping over his head . The I must not omit my own particular adventure . My friend with the long vifage had no fooner taken upon him my fhort face , but he made fuch a gro ...
... ladies , who used to admire him , with a pair of fhoulders peeping over his head . The I must not omit my own particular adventure . My friend with the long vifage had no fooner taken upon him my fhort face , but he made fuch a gro ...
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·· P . S. You may find us at my Lady Betty Clack's , who will leave orders with her parter , that if an • elderly gentleman , with a short face , inquires for her , he fhall be admitted , and no questions afked . ' As this particular ...
·· P . S. You may find us at my Lady Betty Clack's , who will leave orders with her parter , that if an • elderly gentleman , with a short face , inquires for her , he fhall be admitted , and no questions afked . ' As this particular ...
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