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Your Ladyship will understand that this is an invocation, and that I uttered it last night in my sleep. Conceive my surprize at seeing an Old Woman with a looking glass in her hand rise thro' the floor, and seat herself very familiarly at my bed side! Altho' I had frequently heard of the distinctive appellation of plain truth, I confess I did not expect to find her quite so ugly, and probably was so impolite as to express my disgust by the change of my countenance, - for she immediately took care to assure me that she had been once very handsome, but had been so frequently violated, and disfigured by different authors, as to have lost all
