10 THE AMERICAN POLITE LETTER WRITER. lovely face. I hope you'll pardon me for, perhaps, saying so much in your praise, but when you consider the love I bear to you, you cannot then blame me so much. I have no more to add, but remain your lover until death. LETTER VIII. The Lady's Answer. Sin— 1 most own that I respect you, and I ah tnost could say that I love you. If a long acquaintance, and a correct deportment, ensure? tny respect for you, I cannot but feel a certain warmth in my mind and heart for you: but. anti) my parents would give you their consent, cannot Say any thing to you concerning any nearer friendship, as I always had a strict adherence to my parents’ directions and commands to me. 1 would have no objection tc own you as a well wisher, and I may say, a lover, but cannot depend too much on what young men say, in respect to their love to any of our sex, as they too often make such themes of love the object of their hatred, afterwards, and having hea.’d of such tilings happ»^'ing so
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