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THE MAN OF FEELING. 1,^7
made a prefent of to ray grandmother,
v/ho was a very uotaoie woman, and ,.a
a proper regard for gentility. I’ll airare
you ; but npw a-days, it is money, not
birth, that makes people reipecfed i the
more itiame. for the tunes.”
Harley was in no very good humour
for entering into a difcuilion of this qu-d-
tion ; but he always entertained fo much
parental relped for his aunt, as to attend
to her difcourfe.
“ We blame the pride of the rich, faid
he ; but are not we alhamed of our po-
yetty.?”
tf Why, one would notchoofe, replied
his aunt, to make a much worle figure
than one’s neighbours ; but, as 1 was
faying before, the tunes (as my friend
Mrs.Dorothy Walton obfervesjare thame-
fuily degenerated in this reipect. There
was but the other day, at Mr. Walton’s,
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