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CONTENTS

                       

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CHAPTER  PAGE 
The Author's Preface 
A Boarding School 
II  Domestic Concerns  13 
III  Unexpected Misfortunes  21 
IV  Change of Fortune  30 
Such Things Are  40 
VI  An Intriguing Teacher  47 
VII  Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in
the Female Bosom 
55 
VIII  Domestic Pleasures Planned  63 
IX  We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth  71 
When We Have Excited Curiosity, It Is
But an Act of Good Nature to Gratify
it 
78 
XI  Conflict of Love and Duty  83 
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Nature's last, best gift:
Creature in whom excell'd, whatever could
To sight or thought be nam'd!
Holy, divine! good, amiable, and sweet!
How thou art falln'!—
 
89 
XIII  Cruel Disappointment  97 
XIV  Maternal Sorrow  105 
XV  Embarkation  112 
XVI  Necessary Digression  118 
XVII  A Wedding  125