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purpose, by what clean device or facete contrivance I might so modulate them, that whilst I satisfy that ear which the reader chuses to lend me—I might not dissatisfy the other which he keeps to himself.
———My ink burns my finger to try———and when I have———'twill have a worse consequence———it will burn (I fear) my paper.
———No;———I dare not———
But if you wish to know how the abbess of Andoüillets, and a novice of her convent got over the difficulty (only first wishing myself all imaginable success)—I'll tell you without the least scruple.
CHAP.
