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LADY ANNE GRANARD.

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It is impossible for the most thoughtful girl to appear the experienced woman; but the lady-like and gentle, the reasoning and listening, will never be condemned as inadequate companions, either by the old, the sorrowful, or the fastidious, to each of whom they may impart, as by a happy contagion, some portion of their own elastic spirits and ever-springing hopefulness.

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