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Oh! had she never brought Harriet forward! Had she left her where she ought, and where he had told her she ought!--Had she not, with a folly which no tongue could express, prevented herman ould have made her happy and respectable in the line of life to which she ought to belong--all would have been safe; none of this dreadful sequel would have been

How Harriet could ever have had the presuhtley!--How she could dare to fancy herself the chosen of such a man till actually assured of it!-- But Harriet was less humble, had fewer scruples than formerly-- Her inferiority, whether of mind or situation, seemed little felt-- She had see her, than she now see too? Who had been at pains to give Harriet notions of self-consequence but herself?--Who but herself had taught her, that she was to elevate herself if possible, and that her claih worldly establishrown vain, it was her doing too