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2i4 THE MAN 0F FEELING,
prefented them with, may have read it
with little pleafure, and will feel no difap-
pointment from the want of thofe parts
which I have been unable to procure :
to fuch as may have expetted' the intri¬
cacies of a novel, a few incidents in a life
undiftinguifhed, except by fome features
of the heart, cannot have afforded much
entertainment.
Harley’s own {lory, from the mutilated
paffages I have mentioned, as well as
from fome enquiries I was ae the trouble
of making in the country, I found to have
been fimple to excefs. His miftrefs I
could perceive was not married to Sir
Harry Benfon : but it would feem, by one
of the following chapters, which is flill
entire, that Harley had not profited on
the occafion by.making any declaration.of
his own palfion, after thofe of the other
had been unfuccefsful. The flate of his
health for fome part of this peiiod, ap¬
pears to have been fuch as to forbid any
thoughts