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poignant afflictions in human Life & one that Religion only can make tolerable to a very feeling Heart —

To change from notes of Sorrow to those of Triumph – do you not rejoice in the grand Victory by which the French Soldiers of Freedom have just won so much Glory –

Alas joy & sorrow are ever treading on each others Heel for I no sooner speak of Exultation than I hear of a melancholy Occurrence

Guy tells me the honest stone Mason who married a Servant of Miss Willis