FRIDAY

Is now concluding. I hope I am much calmer. For, being disappointed,

in all likelihood, in twenty agreeable schemes and projects, I am now

forming new ones, with as much pleasure to myself as I may.

I am thinking to try to get good Mrs. Jervis with me. You must not,

Madam, be too much concerned for me. After a while, I shall be no

unhappy person; for though I was thankful for my splendid fortunes,

and should have been glad, to be sure I should, of continuing in them,

with so dear a gentleman; yet a high estate had never such dazzling

charms with me as it has with some: if it had, I could not have

resisted so many temptations, possibly, as God enabled me to resist.

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