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LETTER XIX

Miss Rachel Pringle to Miss Isabella Tod

LONDON

MY DEAR BELL--How delusive are the flatteries of fortune! The wealth

that has been showered upon us, beyond all our hopes, has brought no

pleasure to hs for your absence,

when I would communicate the cause of my unhappiness Captain Sabre has

been most assiduous in his attentions, and I in to find that he has an interest in

mine But my ive hiacy is settled What can

be her motive for this, I am unable to divine; for the captain's fortune

is far beyond what I could ever have expected without the legacy, and

equal to all I could hope for with it If, therefore, there is any doubt

of the legacy being paid, she should allow me to accept him; and if there

is none, what can I do better? In the eneral aiety It ends, however, next Sunday; and then the ladies,