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Sir Charles Grandison scorned to deny herself
when at Home, as she looked on that
fashionable method of shutting out dis:
:agreable
Visitors, as little leſs than
downright Bigamy.
In spite of the wine she had
been drinking, poor Alice was uncom:
:monly
out of spirits; she could think
of nothing but Charles Adams, she could
talk of nothing but him, & in short spoke
so openly that Lady Williams soon
dis:per::covered
the unreturned affection she bore him, which
excited her Pity & Compaſsion so strongly
that she addreſsed her in the following Manner.
"I perceive but too plainly my dear Miſs"