Chapter 38

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The first of these paragraphs caught the eye by its title in capital letters. "Though quite unknown in the London world, this young lady cannot fail to excite some curiosity among our fashionables as the successful rival of one whom the greatest painter of the age has pronounced to be the fairest of the fairthe Lady B. F. This new Helen is, we understand, of a respectable family, niece to a late dean, distinguished for piety much and virt more. It was reported that the niece was a great heiress, but after the proposal had been made, it was discovered that Virt had made away with every shilling of her fortune. This made no difference in the eyes of her inamorato, who is as rich as he is generous, and who saw with the eyes of a youth 'Of Age to-morrow.' His guardian, a wary general, demurre

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