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by the feelings of her heart. - Madam Luneville was one of [??]
& [??] feelings, as much as actions to the decisions of her head.

On her arrival in her native country, when she found herself a stran
-ger, she soon perceived the advantages to be derived from a connection
with the admired & fashionable Mrs Clifton, & accordingly made
her arrangements for that purpose. To be beloved, was something more
than the first wish of Julia Clifton, it was a necessity of her nature.
Madam Luneville threw into her manner & language an enthusiastic
& devoted tenderness, which penetrated the very soul of Julia, & won not
only her affection, but her confidence. The lapse of several years, had formed
this acquaintance in to the oldest intimacy. These years, were the most
eventful of her life, for it was during this period that her husband's affections
had first wandered from her, & those habits of dissipation formed, which
were so ruinous to his domestic happiness, his reputation & his
fortune. At this momentous part of her life, had the chosen friend &
confidant of Mrs Clifton, been a woman of earnest judgement
& enlightened piety, she might more easily have been preserved in the
paths of propriety & peace, than misled, as she now was, into
those of indiscretion imprudence & levity. -- Advice & warnings - precepts & exhorta-
tions are not wanting, to deter young women from forming intimacies
with persons of the other sex, while they are too often left
without instruction to choose friends & confidants from their own.
Fatal error! A young female, who receives into her bosom confidence, a
friend of her own sex, destitute of religious & moral principles, is in as much
danger as a cititadel that receives into its walls its greatest enemy,
who being made acquainted with the wants & weaknesses of the
garrison within, can at pleasure open the gates to the enemies
without. - Whle on the other hand, a young woman even with the most beloved & trusted friend of the other sex, never opens to him
the inmost recesses of her heart, never confides to him these weak
-nesses, which constitute her greatest danger; but is gaurded by
the outer [??], with which the delicacy & [??] of sex, surrounds
her. -- Jealousy, rivalships & vanitys, often lead to treachery
between parties whose interests are the same, & therefore [??]
the danger of an indiscreet choice of a female friend; a danger