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98 THE MAN OF FEELING.
“ Though I had never feen the polite
circles of the metropolis, the company
my father had introduced me into had
given me a degree of good-breeding,
which foon difcovered a fuperiority over
the young ladies of our village. I was
quoted as an example of politenefs, and
my company courted by moft of the
co fiderable families in the neighbour¬
hood.
“ Amongft the houfes where I was
frequently invited, was Sir George Win-
brooke’s. He had two daughters nearly
of my age, with whom, though they
they had been bred up in thofe maxims of
vulgar dodtrine, which my fuperior un-
derftanding could not but defpife, yet
as their good nature led them to an
imitation of my manners in every thing
dfe, I cultivated a particular friend-
fhip.
“ Seme