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Sarah now resides with her husband, in the aforementioned town. She speaks with regret of her mispent time, and mourns for the follies of her past life, endeavouring, both by precept and

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CHAPTER II.

The first Deviation of the infamous Duchess of Kingston from the Path

of Virtue.

LORD Marchmont did not break his

heart in consequence of losing his dulcinea; on the contrary, it is said, that he merely seemed to regard it as la fortune de la guerre, and that having met with the Pr-n-e shortly afterwards at Newmarket, he jocosely re

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marked" Although your R-I Hss has got the whip-hand side of me in this instance, I doubt not but I shall be able soon to match sly-boots by as neat a little creature as ever ;"(cetera desunt.}

When his lordship expressed this expectation, he did not speak at random.

Queen-square was then as it now is, a nursery for the rising female generation; and as is now the case, during a certain portion of each day, the

young ladies, who belonged to the boarding schools, were allowed to promenade within the inclosed part of the square.

The lovely Miss Chudi who was then beginning to disclose those charms that afterwards excited the admiration of all the beaux, and rendered her the reigning toast of the day, received the seeds of education in the principal of the Queen-square boarding schools; and, of course, with the rest of the scholars, took the diurnal promenade.

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