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<X TEXT> T<T 1><P 1><L 1><R CASS><D 1796> *STEVENTON : *SATURDAY *JANUARY 9 *IN THE FIRST PLACE *I HOPE YOU WILL LIVE TWENTY-THREE YEARS LONGER. *MR. *TOM *LEFROY'S BIRTHDAY WAS YESTER+ DAY/, SO THAT YOU ARE VERY NEAR OF AN AGE. *AFTER THIS NECESSARY PREAMBLE *I SHALL PROCEED TO INFORM YOU THAT WE HAD AN EXCEEDING GOOD BALL LAST NIGHT, AND THAT *I WAS VERY MUCH DISAPPOINTED AT NOT SEEING *CHARLES *FOWLE OF THE PARTY, AS *I HAD PREVIOUSLY HEARD OF HIS BEING INVITED. *IN ADDITION TO OUR SET AT THE *HARWOODS' BALL, WE HAD THE *GRANTS, *ST. *JOHNS, *LADY *RIVERS, HER THREE DAUGHTERS AND A SON, *MR. AND *MISS *HEATHCOTE, *MRS. *LEFEVRE, TWO *MR. *WATKINS, *MR. *J. *PORTAL, *MISS *DEANES, TWO *MISS *LEDGERS, AND A TALL CLERGYMAN WHO CAME WITH THEM, WHOSE NAME *MARY WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED. *WE WERE SO TERRIBLE GOOD AS TO TAKE *JAMES IN OUR CARRIAGE, THOUGH THERE WERE THREE OF US BEFORE ; BUT INDEED HE DESERVES ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE VERY GREAT IMPROVEMENT WHICH HAS LATELY TAKEN PLACE IN . . .