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THE MAN OF THE WORLD.
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CHAP. III.
yf natural confequecne of fome ■particulars
contained in the lafi.
^J^he ftate of the mind may be often
difguifed, even from the owner, when
he means to enquire into it; but a very
trifle will throw it from its guard, and be¬
tray its fituation, when a formal examina¬
tion has failed to difcover it.
Bolton would often catch himfelf figh-
ing when Mifs Sindall was abfent, and
feel his cheeks glow at her approach; he
wondered what it was that made him figh
and blufh.
He would fometimes take folitary walks,
without knowing why he wandered out
alone: he found fomething that plealed
him, in the melancholy of lonely receffes,
and half-worn paths, and his day-dreams
commonly