There it was our freindship first commenced. She may probably have already told you that being left by her Parents in indigent Circumstances she had retired into Wales on eoconomical motives.

Our neighbourhood was small, for it consisted only of your Mother.

My accomplishments too, begin to fade-I can neither sing so well nor Dance so gracefully as I once did-and I have entirely forgot the MINUET DELA COUR. Alas! how altered now! Tho' indeed my own Misfortunes do not make less impression on me than they ever did, yet now I never feel for those of an other. In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered it was the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble sentiment.Ī sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called. When in the Convent, my progress had always exceeded my instructions, my Acquirements had been wonderfull for my age, and I had shortly surpassed my Masters. Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress. But lovely as I was the Graces of my Person were the least of my Perfections. Tho' my Charms are now considerably softened and somewhat impaired by the Misfortunes I have undergone, I was once beautiful. Our mansion was situated in one of the most romantic parts of the Vale of Uske. When I had reached my eighteenth Year I was recalled by my Parents to my paternal roof in Wales. My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl-I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France.

As the Daughter of my most intimate freind I think you entitled to that knowledge of my unhappy story, which your Mother has so often solicited me to give you.

Love and friendship jane