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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 modeft, hurtlefs flowers; but illjudging paffion will force the gaudier rofe into the wreath, whofe thorn offends them when its leaves are dropt. SHERIDAN'S Rivals,

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

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

249. 5, 510,

SOME recent publications may, perhaps, make it neceffary for the Author of the fubfequent Work, in order to evade the censure of plagiarism, to ftate, that she could, if neceffary, produce the teftimony of several refpectable witnesses, to prove that the entire plot of the following ftory, and nearly three parts of the writing, were finished previously to the appearance of the play called "The Stranger" at Drury-lane Theatre; and that she is not confcious of having borrowed one idea from that much-admired performance.

She has feen two works advertised, which he has been informed bear a resemblance to her own plan: "Let"ters from an Hindoo Rajah ;" and " Wal

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"Waldroff; or, the Dangers of Phi" lofophy." As fhe has never met with either, she cannot tell how far her fentiments may be fimilar.

There is a clafs of writers to whom she owns herself under fome obligations, as they not only fuggefted to her the portrait of a complete villain, but also furnished her with feveral fpecious paffages, which he has appropriated, unaltered, to the character of Fitzosborne. She could fpecify the quotations, with the names of the authors; but perhaps their liberality will be better pleased with a general acknowledgment.

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