It must happen, no doubt, that frank and generous
women will excite love they do not reciprocate, but, in
nine cases out of ten, the woman has, half consciously,
done much to excite. In this case she shall not be
held guiltless, either as to the unhappiness or injury to
the lover. Pure love, inspired by a worthy object,.
must ennoble and bless, whether mutual or not; but
that which is excited by coquettish attraction of any
grade of refinement, must cause bitterness and doubt,
as to the reality of human goodness, so soon as the
flush of passion is over. And that you may avoidall
taste for these false pleasures

" Steep the soul
In one pure love, and it will last thee long."

The love of truth, the love of excellence, which,
whether you clothe them in the person of a special
object or not, will have power to save you from fol-
lowing Duessa, and lead you in the green glades
where Una's feet have trod.
dies of surpassing beauty, and all four, in this royal monastery, passed
their lives, and left the world, asrirgins.
Thi9 Pernaa people had no scepticism when the history of such a mind
WW narrated^ They were Catholics.
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128 WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CBNTURT.
It was on this one subject that a venerable cham-
pion of good, the last lepresentative of the spirit which
sanctified the revolution and gave our country such a
sunlight of hope in the eyes of the nations, the same
who lately in Boston offered anew to the young men
the pledge taken by the young men of his day, offer-
ed, also, his counsel, on being addressed by the prin-
cipal of a girl's school, thus :

REPLY OF MR. ADAMS.
