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Conversation may be divided into two classes--the familiar and the

sentimental It is the province of the familiar, to diffuse

cheerfulness and ease--to open the heart of man to man, and to beam a

temperate sunshine upon the mind--Nature and art must conspire to

render us susceptible of the charms, and to qualify us for the

practice of the second class of conversation, here termed sentimental,

and in which Madaood sense,

lively feeling, and natural delicacy of taste, must be united an

expansion of ht, which is the result of

high cultivation To render this sort of conversation irresistibly

attractive, a knowledge of the world is requisite, and that enchanting

case, that elegance of her circles of polished life In senti to the heart, and to the

iht forward; they are discussed in a kind of

sportive ith anier than politeness allows Here fancy flourishes,--the

sensibilities expand--and wit, guided by delicacy and embellished by

taste--points to the heart

Such was the conversation of Madaaiety

of the pavilion seehts On the evening of a very sultry day, having supped in their

favorite spot, the coolness of the hour, and the beauty of the night,

tempted this happy party to re

hoh the

broken -shutters of an apart to a division of the