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BY

THE AUTHOR OF A GOSSIP'S STORY.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO MRS. CARTER,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

While Hope pictures to us a flattering scene of future blifs,
let us deny its pencil those colours which are too bright
to be lasting. When hearts deserving happiness would
unite their fortune, Virtue would crown them with an
unfading garland of modest, hurtless flowers; but ill-
judging paffion will force the gaudier rose into the wreath.
whose thorn offends them when its leaves are dropt.

SHERIDAN's Rivals.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, PRINTER-STREET,
FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

249, S., 510.