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E]\TTO,MOLOG Y.

LETTER 1.

FIWM FELICI4 TO CONSTANCE.

Shrubbery.

DEAR CONSTANCE

N OTIIING but the restoration of your health, could reconcile the prospect of our passing another summer separated from each other. I had fondly promised myself the

pleasure of participating with you in all my
and had planned many agreeable
schemes, none of which can aflbrd inc any
gratification alone. What is a walk, without a
comp 1nion ? or a book, unless there is a friend
to converse with on its contents? in short, it
requires the approbation or kind censure of a
person one loves, to give a zest to every em
:pioymcnt. You were this friend, this censor

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