8 THE AMERICAS FOLTTE LETTER WRITER. hopes of this letter meeting with a good re. Ception from you, I remain for ever yours, LOVE. P. S. Please write on receipt of this. LETTER VI. The Young Lady's Answer. Sir The praises you were pleased to bestow oft me, were altogether unnecessary on your part, as I consider myself too young to form any acquaintance with young men of any kind,- and indeed I could not well excuse you for writing to a person like me, with whom you had not much acquaintance. In the first place, it would not be prudent in me to answer a letter of the kind that you have sent me; and in the second place, I would not displease my parents in holding correspondence witn any person without their knowledge, a liberty that would perhaps soon annihilate the future prospects of my destiny. But if you were to get acquainted with my father and mother, and that they would like your conduct, it is then, and not until then, that I could with proprie-
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