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HIS KINSFOLK.

THIRD EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY,

EDINBURGH;

AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

AND JOHN MURRAY, London.

1816.

R.-164772

PAUL'S LETTERS

TO

HIS KINSFOLK.

LETTER I.

PAUL TO HIS SISTER MARGARET.

Ir is three long weeks since I left the old mansion-house, which, for years before, has not found me absent for three days, and yet no letter has assured its quiet inmates and neighbours whether my curiosity has met its punishment. Methinks I see the evening circle assembled, and anxiously expressing their doubts and fears on account of the adventurous traveller. The Major will talk of the dangers of outposts and free corps, and

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