TO Dame LA COMTESSE DE FEUILLIDE THIS NOVEL IS INSCRIBED BY HER Duty bound HUMBLE SERVANT THE AUTHOR.

"Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love."

LETTER the 1st From ISABEL to LAURA

How often, in answer to my perennial intreaties that you would be give my Girl a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you aforesaid "No, my freind ne er wish I follow with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of once again experiencing such dreadful ones."

Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be aforesaid to be in security from the determined r> Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, certainly it must be at such a time of Life. Isabel

LETTER 2nd LAURA t