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THE MAN OF THE WORLD.
2
I had not been many weeks an inhabit¬
ant of my native village, after that vifit
to the lady mentioned in the firft volume
which procured me the information I have
there laid before my readers, till I found
myfelf once more obliged to quit it for
a foreign country. My parting with Mrs.
Wiftanly was more folemn and affedting
than common fouls will eafily imagine it
could have been, upon an acquaintance
accidental in its beginning, and Ihort in
its duration j but there was fomething ten¬
der and melancholy in the caufe of it,
which gave an impreflion to our thoughts
of one another, more fympathetic perhaps
than what a feries of mutual obligations
could have effefted.
Before we parted, I could not help
afking the reafon of her fecrecy with
regard to the ftory of Annefly and his
daughter. In anfwer to this fhe informed
me, that befides the danger to which fhe
expofed